The digital world demands that business services, data, and applications be available anywhere. The network must span multiple hosting environments, mobile, fixed devices, and other forms of IT infrastructure. However, just as networks are a crucial enabler for the enterprise, they are also a great source of extended risks. State-sponsored actors, cybercriminals, and hackers are constantly spawning new network attacks to destroy, steal, or compromise critical information and disrupt organizations for their ends.
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Network managers need to take a long, good look at the security and upgrade plans as they prepare to respond to the following four network threats:
DDoS attacks may proliferate
The strength and volume of DDoS attacks tend to grow as hackers try to bring organizations offline or steal data by flowing networks and websites with spurious traffic.
Out of two, one factor is the widespread availability of the DDoS for hire services, where the hackers rent out the skills for a low sum of money. The other is the growing volume of internet-of-things products with poor security defenses attached to the core, edge, and divide-to-device network.
Network-based ransomware destroys systems
Self-propagating ransomware attacks that can spread out quickly across the systems do not rely on humans to click a button; You can download the file or plug it into a USB stick. All they need is to be an unpatched and active workstation with an automated software update.
Evolution of malware with activity masked by legitimate cloud services
Today business is changing how enterprises store and send out sensitive data, with more organizations using the off-premise cloud-hosted services and repositories. However, these are also popular services that hackers can use to register accounts, hide domains, encrypt their malware, start web pages, register accounts, and cover the tracks by deleting the account afterward.
Insider threats show no diminishing signs
Insider threats are responsible for 25 to 75 percent of enterprise data breaches. It is usually driven by industrial espionage, financial gain, or plain misuse or incompetence. However, most network defenses remain configured to protect the perimeter from hackers.
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