Cybersecurity

The enterprise attack surface is vast and continually evolving. As a result, AI-based cybersecurity technologies have developed to assist information security teams in reducing risk and improving their security posture.

“In the past few months, the Middle East has seen a surge of cyberattacks ranging from phishing, scams, data breaches, and ransomware. The consequences for enterprises ranged from critical data loss to financial damage. As we know, adversaries thrive on constant innovation. Attacks will only grow more complex, and threat actors will continue to discover and weaponise new attack vectors designed to exploit the vulnerabilities exposed by this enormous digital shift. Therefore, security professionals must remain vigilant to protect the critical infrastructure that connects and enables the modern world,” says Gaurav Mohan, vice president – sales – SAARC and Middle East, Netscout.

AI and machine learning (ML) have the ability to rapidly analyse millions of events and identify a wide range of threats – from malware exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to identifying risky behaviour that may lead to a phishing attack or the download of malicious code.

A new feature called ‘search and destroy’ was launched by Sophos and it connects intelligence from endpoints to email security solutions. “This is a full ecosystem of both Sophos and non-Sophos products that feeds information into a data lake, which is leveraged with the help of AI to detect suspicious behaviours and incidents faster and respond automatically. All that information is tunneled through XDR which goes beyond the endpoint, allowing human intelligence to augment artificial intelligence across the whole spectrum,” says Harish Chib, vice president, Middle East and Africa, Sophos.

It is important for organisations and sectors to safeguard their digital transformation journeys in order to keep up with technological advances. As a result, safeguarding email, networks, and cloud-based communication tools and settings is the prudent course of action. Cybercriminals will continue to watch an organisation’s shift at each stage – from reading emails to moving whole workloads to the cloud to configuring networks – in order to identify weak points. They will utilise unique tactics on a continuous basis, which not only disrupts the process but also makes identification and prevention more difficult.

The need of the hour is a holistic cybersecurity approach that provides complete visibility and defence across the organisation. Businesses must realise that investing in cybersecurity is vital and beneficial to protect their customers and data.

AI and machine learning (ML) have the ability to rapidly analyse millions of events and identify a wide range of threats – from malware exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to identifying risky behaviour that may lead to a phishing attack or the download of malicious code