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FINAL WORD
Eliminating the
blind spot
CISOs and their teams face increasing
pressure to manage the sophisticated
new cyberthreats that are constantly
emerging, with visibility a crucial part of
staying one step ahead. Hesham Elsherif,
Principal System Engineer at A10
Networks, tells us how the company’s
A10 Networks’ Thunder SSLi product can
be seamlessly deployed to bolster an
organisation’s cybersecurity defence and,
critically, eliminate the blind spot.
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How would you describe the overall threat landscape?
Day after day, cyberattacks and threats are increasing in complexity
and in volume, which represent a daily challenge for executives to
block and disarm these threats. IOT, 5G, IPv6, office365 and NFV are
all newcomers to the Middle East and these technologies will change
the rules.
Infrastructure needs to be adapted to accommodate the rapid
growth and new user behaviour to ensure safe communication and
to eliminate security threats.
In 2019, according to Ponemon Institute and IBM Securities,
US$3.92 million is the average cost of a data breach and US$150 is
the average cost per record lost. There has been a 650% increase in
trojan-based malware threats and a 195% increase in ransomware
in Q1 2019 according to the HIPAA Journal. A total 90% of breaches
were caused by phishing as per a Retruster report. And almost 50%
of cyberattacks use encryption to evade security, as 94% of all
Internet traffic is encrypted according to the Google Transparency
Report/Dark Reading.
What are some of the most complex network security
challenges that enterprises and large organisations
are encountering?
I would say building a skilled security team that is capable of
identifying priorities and executing on a plan is key. This begins
with assessing the assets (data and infrastructure) up to correlating
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