Reducing The Cyber Impact By Thinking Smart

Even though it’s usually the adversaries who have sophisticated attacks set to carry out multiple steps of attacks, they will frequently do that using known tools and techniques or reused them with trivial modifications.

Rule #1 Breaking to Attack Flow!

It’s possible to prevent even the most powerful techniques, so enabling adapted security controls in the stack that can mitigate the majority of the attack phases that will discharge your business as a target. Indeed, they always have a target, but attacks will no longer be effective. Sophisticated attacks may include multiple tools and techniques so the good part is the slightest error in the attack chain or the proper security control success in the chain of attack, and there will cause the rest of the attack flow not to work. Likewise, continuously adopting defense stacks over offensive threat contexts will allow you to be more resilient to handle attacks.

Rule #2 Simulating Active Defense Capabilities

ADC(Active Defense Capabilities) was first introduced by NCSC. The range of ADC measures accurately decreases adversaries’ capability to organizations. It’s an overall approach to resilient cybersecurity capabilities with threat-driven intelligence for organizations. To share and understand adversarial behavior like MITRE ATT&CK mapped Techniques and Tactics, which must be aligned with current security controls and response efforts to enable security readiness for disrupting cyber threats successfully.

Defensive measures require frontline efforts that use threat intelligence, detection effectiveness, and mitigation capabilities — the concept of using emerging adversarial context using inaction by utilizing prevention tools. Using actionable mitigation in the defense stack requires seamless integration with the products. Thanks to the SIGMA detection rules and TALR by using these methods with API integrations. For a while now, we can dynamically share internal threat intelligence information that we create.

A useful defense model responding to these adversaries also expects an orchestration of a bunch of security products. Today, security orchestration is mostly functioning in an old-fashioned way; human in-loop, tons of manual processes do not accelerate the speed, agility, and control to ensure cybersecurity operations against imminent threats.

Effective defense against these adversaries requires near real-time threat orchestration on thousands of endpoints and network systems, multiple organizational processes, and execution of the complex set of response actions within various domains.

Why do I need it?

Infrastructure and their data are connected to the cyber-world. A complete defense strategy must-have components that include the capability to operate with business processes in a threat-centric manner and a defense stack that empower the detection and mitigation of threats at cyber-speed. That must be scalable to serve in any size enterprise and work in an integrated way with a defense stack with hardening and optimization capabilities.

Incorporating scenario-based testing into the adversarial simulation models supports organizations to obtain additional insight into the effectiveness of current controls and procedures by benchmarking performance against the attributes of specific types of attacks.

Habits, Controls, and Uncertainty

There are some critical factors to the new security approach. Security is a culture, We must have reliable and well-defined processes from the business and speak the same language. Everyone must understand the risks and what costs.

Second, are the only necessary controls must be taken in place. Developing more controls doesn’t provide the effectiveness of security. They always add an extra parameter to the equation, and finally, Understand and adapt to the challenge of the threat landscape.

Transitioning to Cyber-resilience

Security breaches are now inevitable, and traditional strategies did not solve the puzzle, a new breed of security methods to meet new challenges the security. As organizations develop their security strategy — a crucial step is to accept that all security technologies, including new and old in the game. — are expected to have a function in securing networks in a resilient way. So, the organizations must get benefit from the adversarial context and scenario-based migrations that will allow them to make critical functionality for their deployments. This is the only way a scalable approach can mitigate potential risks.

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