Cyber security leaders and influencers across Europe shared with us their companies’ cyber security priorities, challenges, strategies and budgets for 2020 and beyond. In this summary of survey results from nearly 2000 security leaders, you’ll learn the latest cyber security trends taking shape across verticals and regions.
Prevention alone is no longer enough, even for smaller businesses. Today’s cyber criminals use a range of strategies, including both opportunistic and targeted attacks against companies of all sizes and industries. In the current threat landscape, it’s important to take a holistic approach. No matter what industry you’re in or the size of your company, you should be able to predict, prevent, detect and respond to any attempted security breach. F-Secure’s free Cyber Security Test can tell you your company’s strengths and weaknesses.
Attack detection has come along in leaps and bounds over the past few years and is improving still. Over the past few years, cyber-attack detection has seen enormous investment and progress across the world, making it is possible now to detect even the stealthiest and most innovative of attackers faster than ever before. And for many years, security experts have vocally advocated the need for enterprises to invest evenly across Prediction, Prevention, Detection and Response.
State-sponsored groups are the behemoths of the threat landscape, with the largest pool of financial and technical resources. While their objectives in targeting government and commercial information are well documented, less obvious assets be targeted, such as human resource files. These attacker groups are proving that they can move at lightning speed, driving to achieve their objective before they are detected.
Cybersecurity is also a lifecycle and ideally one should build in continuous improvements and assessments. One of the best ways to ensure you are bolstered against the threat landscape is to take lessons learned from investigations and build a programme that can implement those recommendations. Constraints to budgets and time make it difficult to implement every single recommendation. However, 10% readiness is better than no readiness. It is not purely about monetary investment, but about making internal improvements to your processes and procedures. This brings us to the subject of network segregation and why it is worth the effort.
F-Secure has had a consistency that no other company in the cyber security industry has been able to match over the past 10 years. The industry-leading technology behind F-Secure SAFE and Protection Service for Business won AV-TEST’s prestigious Best Protection award in 2012,13,14,16,18 and 2020. Such consistency has only been possible by staying ahead of a relentless criminal industry that is constantly trying, retrying, and refining any attack that works.
Threat groups like Carbanak and FIN7 cause severe damage to businesses, costing them millions. Join this webinar presented by Elias Koivula who will be performing a live attack simulation and show ways of detecting such threats.
Monday, 3 May 2021 at 12:00 – 13:30 SA Time
Be sure to consider some of the cyber threats out there and consider these tips for protecting yourself and your devices. Until our next mailer, you can check out all the great resources we have available on our website.
