Advanced threat PROTECTION (ATP)
Stop sophisticated threats to prevent breaches and data loss.
Introduction
The number, variety and sophistication of cyberattacks is increasing on a daily basis. Ransomware, DDoS and brute force attacks form just a snapshot of the types of threats faced by consumers and organisations alike. While the vast majority of known threats can be defended against using traditional security technologies, the real challenge is protecting against previously unseen attacks.
Safeguarding your financial, intellectual and personal data requires an integrated, intelligence-based security fabric to provide end-to-end protection across the organisation. Ensuring that you have a holistic security strategy – combining people, process and advanced technology – will dramatically reduce your exposure to current and future attacks.
SR Cloud Solutions has helped many organisations to protect themselves from advanced threats, specifically relating to DDoS, Behavioural Analytics and Sandboxing.
What Makes a Threat “Advanced?”
A threat can earn this label for a few different reasons. For instance, a threat may be advanced if:
- Its perpetrators have unlimited resources or tools to carry out an attack and maintain access to a network
- Attackers have ready access to funding to adapt an attack as needed
- An attack has been crafted to target a specific organization
- Let’s put a little more context around advanced threats in their various forms.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
An advanced persistent threat (APT—not to be confused with ATP) is an attack in which an attacker stealthily gains access to an organisation’s network and establishes a foothold, allowing them to remain there undetected for an extended period. APTs often target a specific company and tend to use advanced malware that can bypass or dodge common security measures. They are sophisticated attacks that need to be met with equally sophisticated defense.
Once an attacker gains access to a target network, usually through credential phishing attacks or malware, they may be able to access anything from company data to private conversations and other sensitive material. If they stay undetected for long enough—weeks, months, or perhaps even years—they can gather huge amounts of data to use for malicious purposes.
What are the Most Common Advanced Attack Methods?
Advanced attacks share a few core techniques that most frequently get bad actors where they want to go. The most prevalent of these are:
- Phishing lures a user into following a link from a seemingly trusted source to gain access to company credentials or information. This is the most common method for APT attackers to gain access to an internal network.
- Installing malware helps cyber-attackers burrow deeper into a network once they’ve gained access, enabling them to monitor activity and collect company data. This is most often done through phishing.
- Password cracking allows attackers to gain administrative access and have free rein within a network.
- Creating a backdoor ensures a way back into the network if an attacker needs to leave.
How Does Advanced Threat Protection Work?
Advanced threat protection solutions are built to detect and respond to advanced threats before they cause data loss or otherwise harm your organization. While offerings from different service providers vary widely in their core functions, ATP solutions often include:
Network traffic analysis
Network traffic analysis to monitor your network for security and operational anomalies
Threat intelligence sharing
Threat intelligence sharing to offer all of a given provider’s customers the same protection
Sandboxing
Sandboxing to detect and isolate suspicious files for analysis and response
Why choose SR Cloud Solutions?
SR Cloud Solutions has a 25-year track record of supplying managed security services to many organisations in different industries.
- The best technology – highest levels of accreditation with the world’s leading vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.
- Skills and expertise with a UK-based 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC).
- We are a Joscar accredited business which means we are certified to work with leading defense companies who require the highest standards of cyber security.
- We are experts in Cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure so we can provide expert security consultancy on hybrid cloud environments and how best to secure and monitor those environments including Cloud Governance.
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BENEFITS OF ADVANCED THREAT PROTECTION
Real-time threat visibility
Today’s high threat volume doesn’t allow you to wait for scheduled scans to see if you’re secure. Effective advanced threat protection monitors all your traffic, all the time, unlike legacy antivirus solutions.
Centralised context and correlation
Reactive, real-time, predictive security measures powered by advanced AI give your security team the full picture, meaning faster threat detection, prevention, and remediation.
Shared cloud intelligence
Patching your protection is inconvenient at best, impossible at worst. With cloud-delivered threat intelligence, as soon as a given solution stops a new threat anywhere, it can stop it everywhere.
Data Awareness
It’s impossible to determine threats truly capable of causing harm without first having a deep understanding of enterprise data, its sensitivity, value, and other factors that contribute to the formulation of an appropriate response.
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