National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is observed every October to raise cybersecurity awareness and provide resources to help individuals and enterprises be safer and more secure online. This year, ExtraHop®, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, is joining NCSAM organizers and security professionals around the world in offering tips and strategies for enterprise organizations to improve their security posture across hybrid and cloud workloads. Below are the company’s top five tips for building smarter enterprise security:
- Prevention is a pipe dream: With global data breaches on the rise, organizations are increasingly shifting their strategy from protection and prevention at the perimeter to detection and response in the east-west traffic corridor. According to Gartner, 60% of enterprise information security budgets will be allocated to rapid detection and response approaches by 2020 — up from less than 10% in 2014. While prevention still has value as a first line of defense, cybersecurity leaders should recenter their operations – people, process, and technology – on reducing dwell time and mitigating damage.
- Get clarity on cloud security: If you’re hosting anything in the cloud, it’s critical to understand where your cloud service provider’s security responsibility ends and yours begins. Some of the most common threats to cloud security are home grown and preventable, including misconfiguration, unauthorized access, and insecure APIs.
- Trust no one — not even your vendors: Enterprises rely on vendors for everything from infrastructure and applications to security. But do you know how vendors use your data? Ask questions of your vendors to ensure you understand how your data is being handled, where it’s going, and what level of encryption the vendor uses.
- Put your defenses to the test: To improve the security posture of your organization and find potential gaps in your defenses, run red vs. blue exercises. These keep your security team sharp and help proactively identify your security vulnerabilities.
- Assume the threats are already inside: According to M-Trends 2019, the average dwell time of a threat in a corporate environment is 78 days. Businesses need to invest in the ability to actively monitor and analyze traffic inside their networks. This is where threats dwell, and right now it’s an open field for attackers.
To learn more about the company’s cloud-native network detection and response platform, visit https://www.extrahop.com/solutions/security/ and explore the Reveal(x) interactive online demo: https://www.extrahop.com/demo/
About ExtraHop
ExtraHop is the leading provider of cloud-native network detection and response for the hybrid enterprise. With complete visibility, real-time threat detection, and automated investigation powered by cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop enables security teams at leading enterprises including Credit Suisse, The Home Depot, Caesars Entertainment, and Liberty Global to rise above the noise of alerts, organizational silos, and runaway technology in order to accelerate investigations, unify policies across hybrid environments, and build their security the way they’re building their business: cloud-first. To experience the power of ExtraHop, explore our interactive online demo or connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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