The dramatic scope of the recent string of high profile breaches in 2014 and 2015 proves that organizations of any size and type can be targeted by cyber criminals. This white paper shares 5 steps to developing stronger security to help break the patterns that leave businesses vulnerable and open to attack.

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5 Steps to Stronger Security
STOPPING THE NEXT
MASSIVE CYBERATTACK

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Era of the Breach
1 IT Security Risks Survey 2014, Kapersky Lab report, 2014
2 PWC Global State of Information Security Survey 2015, PWC, October 2014
3 “2014 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: United States,” Ponemon Institute, October 2014
of large companies say
targeted attacks are
a major threat1
39% 117,339
global attacks
per day2
Average annualized
cybercrime cost by
organization3
12.7
million

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What Can Breaches Teach Us?
Security vulnerabilities
Operational weaknesses
Common attack patterns
Preventive steps

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Best-in-class security
products are not enough
on their own
Only a security-driven network architecture and
security infrastructure partnered with
experienced staff can prevent future attacks

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5 STEPS TO
STRONGER
SECURITY

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Assess environment
vulnerabilities and weaknesses
STEP 1

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Evaluating Security
• Ingress/Egress
• Critical Services
• Critical Data
• Segmentation
• Security controls
• Password policy controls
• Advanced threat prevention

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Segment the network to
prevent and contain infections
STEP 2

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FLAT NETWORK
SEGMENTED NETWORK

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Implement security controls
to protect against APTs
STEP 3

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Stopping Attacks At
Every Stage

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The criminal identifies
a vulnerability to
exploit
Security solution:
The criminal writes code to
exploit that vulnerability and
download malware
Security solution:
Malware connects
with its Command
& Control center
Security solution:
Malware spreads
through the network to
look for critical data
Security solution:
Malware finds the data
& begins exfiltration
Security solution:
IPS AV
Sandboxing
Segmentation
IPS
AV
Anti-bot tools
Anti-bot
tools
Data
leakage
and loss
prevention
tools

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Monitor 24/7
for continuous security
STEP 4

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Keys to Effective Monitoring
Monitor logs daily
Correlate logs from different technologies
Tune detection and analysis rules based on logs
Identify potential incidents with anomaly detection tools
Stay familiar with network assets
Use visualization to assist expert analysis
Maintain logs for 90 days or more
Retroactively review logs based on new data

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Create and test
Incident Response plan
STEP 5

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Closing The Door To Attacks
Are you prepared to…
Contain attacks?
Minimize losses?
Keep the business running?

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Take the first step,
schedule your FREE
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Attacks, Today