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There is a significant change in the threat landscape – according to Online Trust Alliance, the number of cyber incidents doubled to 160,000 in 2017. This can be attributed to the frequency and sophistication of the attacks that are perpetrated on enterprises and government organizations by individuals or state-sponsored machinery.
What if potential malware like WannaCry and Stuxnet return, in different and even more destructive avatars? In the RSA 2018 conference, two noted security researchers raised concerns that the malware created by various governments can be repurposed/repackaged by cyber criminals and reused elsewhere.
The new repurposed malware may follow the same advanced persistent threat (APT) kill chain but may not necessarily have a command and control center.
Organizations, be it government or private enterprises, take a long time to detect APT attacks, as they are stealthy and take days to spread inside an organization through multiple vectors. There are no signature definitions to detect and stop zero-day malware attacks. Bad actors compromise perimeter security technologies or find ways to insert the malicious code from within the organization through email, phishing, USB pen drives, unpatched software vulnerabilities and SCADA systems.
Though there are several tools to detect and mitigate cyber threats, hackers have always found ways to by-pass them and infect the targets. Therefore, the best practice is to reduce the attack surface by creating several segments within the data center. Segmentation, or rather, microsegmentation, helps you create zero-trust networks. With microsegmentation, an APT threat that enters a network segment can potentially be trapped there, making it difficult for it to propagate laterally to other resources.
Software-defined secure microsegmentation improves the security posture of your data center and provides granular visibility into your east-west traffic. Some of the advantages are:
So, the next time an undetectable version of WannaCry or Stuxnet comes in, don’t count on your firewalls, IDS/IPS or perimeter security to protect your data center. Because, you won’t even know it’s in your network.
Learn more about microsegmentation here.
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