Red Sky Alliance has been supporting cyber security prevention for years. Prevention works and need to be employed to all cyber defenses. Cyber-attacks know no boundaries. They happen everywhere – even in Africa. Companies are confronted with the increasingly difficult task of safeguarding their expanded digital estate against rising cyber threats. Previously, they'd implement security processes based on the physical network boundary, which was limited to their official premises.
Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies adopted remote work strategies, which increased their digital real estate and exposed them beyond the boundaries of their physical networks. Attackers now have a larger surface on which to deploy actions that jeopardize the processes and techniques involved in safeguarding sensitive resources such as data, systems, networks, applications, and even Internet of Things (IoT) environments.
Ransomware, a type of malware that infects files and folders and prevents them from being accessed, is one of the most rapidly growing types of attacks on this newly exposed digital real estate. Attackers demand a ransom (hence the name) from their victims in exchange for a decryption key.
Despite paying average ransom sums of $812,360, only 61% of encrypted data is recovered, according to the 2022 Sophos State of Ransomware report. This demonstrates that, even in the case of ransomware, prevention is always preferable to the cure.
Another trend that organizations should be aware of is Shift Left Security (DevOps), which encourages software development and IT operations teams to incorporate security into the development process as early as possible.
Red Sky Alliance is a Cyber Threat Analysis and Intelligence Service organization. Our services can help any company, regardless of global location, to offer preventative indicators of compromise – to block malicious attacks on your network. For questions, comments or assistance, please contact the office directly at 1-844-492-7225, or feedback@wapacklabs. com
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