Tips for protection as today’s threat landscape intensifies so fast

Looking at the three ‘Ss’ of cyber security, today’s threat landscape is intensifying fast.

Data collected earlier this year by Palo Alto Networks from 65,000 customers globally, showed that the Sophistication of attacks is up sharply, with 19.6 million unique malware attacks detected every day across 65,000 of the company’s global customers.

“The Scale of these attacks is unprecedented, with a more than 400 percent increase in exploit attempts, according to the 2024 Palo Alto Networks Malware report, while the company’s Unit 42 research division reports a sharp increase in Speed with automated attacks executed across regions within 1 hour of initial compromise.

At the same time, network security is increasingly complex and fragmented for modern organisations today, as their digital needs expand, and as traditional notions of the network perimeter give way to the realities of modern working and the edge.

This demands new thinking, new approaches and new technologies to ensure CISOs, CIOs, executives and the wider organisation have the best possible posture to ensure all data is secure while being immediately accessible.

Gartner and others have identified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as the most important framework or set of principles for achieving this. But what is the best platform to support effective deployment?

The ‘Strata Network Security Platform’ brings together the sprawling, growing number of issues that all technology leaders must now address, including firewall, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, sandbox, DNS security, IoT / OT security, DLP, CASB, remote access, secure web gateway, SD-WAN, digital experience monitoring and others.

Simple and unified, the Strata Network Security Platform operates across the datacentre, internet, public cloud, SaaS, campus, branch, remote locations and IoT/OT   to effectively prevent threats in real time.

It has 3 core pillars:

1. Unified management and operations
   Unify policies for all users, apps, devices. Deploy best practices to avoid human error.
   
   
2. AI-powered real-time security
   Prevent threats in real time using AI & ML applied to rich data from 65,000+ customers.
   
   
3. Single sensor, multiple form factors
   Simplify security with a consistent operating system. Protect every location with a fitting form factor.

As AI encroaches into more and more facets of technology, business and society, it is now beginning to transform cyber security in dramatic ways.

Using AI, Palo Alto Networks Strata Network Security Platform now detects and blocks almost 20 million unique attacks, and over 12 billion inline attacks per day. It now delivers signatures on average in under 10 seconds!

This capability is the result of deep analysis of more than 65,000 customers, processing of 1 terabytes of cloud event data, while analysing more than 1.4 billion new and unique objects every day.

The Strata Network Security Platform is modular so you can choose the right journey for your organisation to get to your Enterprise-wide Zero Trust.

While there are a wide variety of customer use cases, the five most common are:

• Secure the Hybrid Workforce - Putting the right security in place to enable employee productivity as staff increasingly work from anywhere
• SD-WAN Branch transformation - Leveraging Software-Defined Wide Area Networking to optimise network performance, enhance scalability, streamline connectivity and maintain security for branch offices in a cost-effective and efficient manner
• Campus & Data Center Security Modernisation - Deploying and managing the advanced cybersecurity needed to safeguard critical assets in both campus environments and data centres.
• Extend Network Security to the Cloud - Maintain a seamless security experience and policy as workloads migrate to AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Secure Every OT Environment – Whether it’s your factory, your distribution center and logistics, your substation, or your operating room, it is critical to make sure your physical infrastructure is safe from cyber attacks.

Whatever your journey, and whatever your most important use cases are, we’ve got the experience and the platform to help.

If you would like to discuss your security framework and requirements email here to get in contact with one of Enablis’ security experts.