How has network security evolved to address the rapidly changing threat landscape?
Ashar Aziz: In the last three or four years there has been a major transformation in the nature of threats in the wild and how they have mutated into an extremely stealthy and hard to detect direction. That’s been the most fundamental change in the last few years. [Malware] is not noisy, it’s not designed to be obvious. It stays under the radar while it’s doing its criminal activity; trying to make money for the criminal or nation state. That’s really where the malware and the threat landscape have evolved. Malware is the key part of what the threat landscape is all about today. We have major cybercriminal activity on the Internet today with theft of identities, theft of credit card data, theft of intellectual property and actual theft of money from banks from within their corporate networks. All of this is enabled by this new sophisticated evolved class of malicious software. Modern malware: Enterprise botnets contain thousands of malware variants: Smaller and contained on company net
