What Trends does Top Layer see based on Recent Cyber Crime Activity?
Valuable data loss (impacting brand reputation and attracting large monetary fines) together with regulations continue to be top-of-mind issues for CSO’s and CIO’s when it comes to network and application security. Much of this concern stems from the growing sophistication of cyber attacks and the multitude of ways they are being launched. There are so many entry points on today’s network, whether it’s email, FTP, Web services or wireless, security defenses need to be more comprehensive than ever before. What has been discovered from investigating the large number of recent high-profile data losses was that in many instances, systems became infected with remote exploits that could have been prevented in the first place with an IPS.
