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Sheltering From the Cyberattack Storm – Part Two
By Nick Lines, Security Product Expert, Panaseer
In the first part of this series, I discussed sophisticated cyberattacks, analyzed an example, and offered
advice on how to remediate against such an attack. But the cybersecurity storm doesn’t stop there.
While sophisticated attacks may be the hardest to defend against, they’re also the rarest, requiring a
level of skill and knowledge usually limited to state-backed adversaries or well-established cybercrime
groups. Because they have a lower bar for entry, the majority of attacks we see fall into the categories of
human-operated industrialized and opportunistic attacks – which are often automated. But that doesn’t
make them any less dangerous, and they often have long, destructive tailwinds. However, research
shows that 98% of attacks could be prevented with basic cyber hygiene, and in this second installment
I’ll show how this applies to both industrial and opportunistic attacks.
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