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TIME TO BRING IN THE THREAT HUNTERS AS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE POST PANDEMIC RAISE THE BUSINESS VALUE OF AN ORGANISATION BEING ONLINE AND AVAILABLE, LARGE ENTERPRISES AND CRITICAL BUSINESSES NEED TO CONSIDER THE SERVICES OF ADVANCED THREAT HUNTERS, EXPLAINS ROHIT BHARGAVA, PRACTICE HEAD - CLOUD & SECURITY FROM CLOUD BOX TECHNOLOGIES.
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s organisations pivot around digital transformation and make the organisation increasingly agile to combat post pandemic challenges, the stakes around the impact of any type of cybersecurity attack are continuously spiraling upwards. Whether it is ransomware or damage to industrial assets or business interruption or loss of data integrity, market leaders in 34
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any industry cannot afford to see their business impacted in any way. With threat actors continuously innovating their modus operandi, and their movements inside organisations, there is a need for enterprises and mission critical organisations, which are usually the targets for advanced threat actors, to look beyond conventional tools. One possibility is to use a skilled human approach to track threat actor movements inside an organisation’s
networks and look for anomalies not picked up by day-to-day tools and alerts. Some sources indicate that over 50% of breaches are undetected by existing cyber security defense tools. Existing defensive cybersecurity tools are like a camera pointed at the door that is triggered by the definition of a known enemy. And what if the enemy does not match the definition of a known enemy? The camera will not flash!
