With data breaches up 54% and multiple terabytes of records exposed by hackers in recent months, spending on cybersecurity by worried company leaders is also reaching new heights. Your cybersecurity stack might be expanding, but is it up to today’s complex challenges? Learn how various classes of security tools and techniques overlap and find out how a strong foundation can help you optimize your cybersecurity stack while keeping costs under control.

Companies keep adding more tools and people to their cyber programs, yet breaches and cybersecurity spending continue to increase. In this whitepaper, we’ll take a look at:

1. The scale of the cybersecurity challenge and some of the tools commonly deployed to reduce risks.

2. A new approach to cybersecurity to rightsize the stack and use resources more effectively.

3. Impacts at the endpoint, network, data, and IT/Sec-Ops levels and how building the cybersecurity stack on a strong foundation can reduce costs and risk.

 

Labor is typically the top-line expense in a cybersecurity operation. AppGuard not only eliminates a significant portion of the products and appliances IT/Sec-Ops teams use to mitigate threats, but it also frees those professionals to work on more strategic tasks (like higher-level threat intelligence and hunting) by stopping the incidents and alerts that routinely bog IT/Sec‑Ops professionals down.

Find out how AppGuard will enhance your cyber stack.

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing and critical concern for banks and their customers. Financial institution’s customers suffer daily attacks that could result in loss of data, assets, and most importantly, customer confidence and brand reputation. Online banking users are increasingly exposed to new attacks like spear-phishing, keyloggers, password spraying, Ursnif, and more. Some of the largest financial services institutions are investing millions to protect their customers from cyber theft, ransomware, and other forms of attack. The problem? How can they manage outside assets while ensuring customers a safer online banking experience?

AppGuard’s unique patented dynamic endpoint defense prevents all breaches from occurring by disrupting the earliest and subsequent stages of a cyber attack. AppGuard does not require any user interaction or cause CPU degradation. It simply protects the endpoint irrespective of network connection.

Don’t take our word for it –  see how AppGuard is protecting large financial institution’s customers since 2017.

Financial services organizations are increasingly high-value targets of malware-based cyberattacks. Bank ATMs and other endpoints are particularly vulnerable to malware, which can threaten and expose sensitive customer data, and cause untold financial and reputational damage. With new and advanced threats such as fileless code, memory-based attacks, and stolen signing certificates, financial organizations are at risk more than ever from increasingly sophisticated, targeted, and undetectable attacks.

How have things escalated to this point? Much of the problem stems from the fact that traditional antivirus, machine learning, and artificial intelligence learning solutions can’t stop an attack. Instead, they attempt to detect or contain a compromise that has already occurred, then attempt to respond quickly enough to limit its effects. But as recent headlines have shown, these attacks are going unnoticed for weeks and, in some cases, even months.

As the volume of sensitive and mission-critical data grows, government networks continue to be prime targets for sophisticated cyberattacks. Protecting this information is key, but agencies must also keep a close eye on the weakest link in their network — the endpoint. As breaches become more sophisticated and unknown threats bypass traditional detection-based methods, attack mechanisms are lying dormant on agency endpoints for months before being detected.

Last month, an international hacking group announced that it had breached three top US-based antivirus software vendors. Ars Technica reported that the “Fxmsp collective” offered convincing evidence of the breach and was “actively marketing” source code and network access. Is anyone surprised?

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The attack landscape has changed, traditional antivirus type solutions alone no longer offer adequate protection. AppGuard empowers customers with a powerful cybersecurity solution by delivering comprehensive prevention, detection capabilities at endpoint to prevent zero-day attacks.

Cybersecurity costs are rising each year, along with breach volume. Detect-and-react strategies are becoming more complex and costly, all while failing to stem the tide. Is there a better way to identify the true cost of cybersecurity and mitigate risks more effectively?

Endpoints are vulnerable, and defeating malware is hard. Despite increased spending on cybersecurity tools and personnel, malware continues to bypass existing security controls to gain access to endpoints. Traditional security defenses such as firewalls, secure email gateways, IPSs, signature-based solutions, and next generation endpoint protection platforms can play a role in your defense-in-depth strategy, but they continue to fall short on protecting against advanced threats and zero-day exploits.

Today’s enterprises are writing, buying, and deploying more web applications than at any point in the history of computing. With the rapid growth of cloud services and mobile technology, applications are available everywhere — sometimes outside of the traditional IT infrastructure. This evolution has taken place so rapidly that many IT organizations are having trouble keeping up. This often leads to “out-of-sync” security, technology, and application development groups — and ultimately increases the risk to the organization.