The advent of cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex, with well resourced and funded threat groups and adversaries. While previously, we had threats that were linear in nature, now threats are distributed with multiple aspects around the attacks and often more than a single dimension to the attacks is observed, which focuses on diminishing the security teams, response capability. Hence, we need to enhance our approach to security by employing advance mitigation and detection tools and platforms. Let's begin with a few key considerations to keep in mind when developing a proactive security strategy.
Key considerations
Here are a few steps to be carried out when you start moving to a proactive security strategy:
- Prepare: Know what to protect and know the threats. Define a defense strategy and target capabilities.
- Detect: Obtain actionable visibility into attacks and other security incidents by using monitoring and analytics to detect both known...