The organizations continue to reap the benefits of internet but at the same time remain vulnerable. Every day we hear incidents related to security breaches, financial loss and tarnished corporate reputation through sophisticated malwares, highly organized spear phishing attacks and insider threats. “According to AV-Test Institute 390,000 new malicious programs are registered with them every day”. This goes on to show that the malwares are increasing at a rapid pace, beating the advancements in technology that are meant to stop them.
If we look back a decade and a half, the only few known security technologies to an organization were either an antivirus or a firewall. The journey started, then came, endpoint protection, email gateways, web gateways, identity & access, data loss prevention, encryption, SIEM & sandboxing and so many more. Half of these technologies have seen a re-launch with some added features and a word “Next Generation” to it and we still remain vulnerable.
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