Businesses fear zero-days as much as ransomware
Automation could be the key to tackle modern cyber threats
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Althoughransomwareis the primary security concern for most businesses, almost as many fearzero-dayattacks just as much, a new study has found.
In fact, the two were ranked as the biggest threats by more than half of the respondents, out-scoring other traditional threats includingstate-sponsored attacksin a survey conducted bycybersecurityvendor Deep Instinct, which questioned 600 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France.
Deep Instinct says the intention of the survey is to highlight the current and emerging security threats, and their impact on the day-to-day lives ofSecOpsprofessionals.
“As we work to implement a stronger layer of defense, it will be just as important to protect the hard-working employees that sit in the SOC [Security Operations Center] as it is to secure the business,” said Guy Caspi, CEO of Deep Instinct.
Automated defense
Deep Instinct, which offers a purpose-built deep learning framework for cybersecurity, is using the surrey to build a case for automation, and suggests that machine learning will play a significant role in cybersecurity in the coming times.
For instance, it found, rather unsurprisingly, that ransomware has cemented its status as a global concern. However, many respondents shared that they spend about ten hours a week assessing false positive alerts.
Worryingly, a majority (62%) agree that the overwhelming volume of false positives allows the real threats to slip through the gaps.
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No wonder then that 71% of the respondents agreed that automation of cybersecurity is the only viable solution for addressing cyber threats, with most (84%) of the opinion that a blend of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning is essential for reining in the growing number of cyber threats.
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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