Security threats expand more challenging and complex every year and the year 2016 has no exception in this criterion. However, the organization has now come forward to enhance their potential to fight against the threat landscape. If you are one among those organization, this article is specially designed for you. Here we listed two top threats of 2016 and tips to overcome them.
Anonymizing network, as well as payment methods, stands behind the rapid growth of this threat. In 2016, with the emergence of RaaS (Ransom as aService) encouraged the cyber criminals even an inexperienced one to accelerate the severity of the ransomware. This attack had been spread across all over the world and in each and every sector of the organization. This attack involves blocking the user’s computer and asking them to pay some amount to remove the block.
How To Overcome This Threat?
Ransomware not only demands a huge dollar from the victim or organization, it indirectly affects the productivity of the company. Here are a few tips to avoid this infection:
Backup Files
Tryto regularly backup every file from your system and store itsomewhere else to avoid direct access from the desktop system. Incase, you experienced a ransomware attack, you need not to worry orpay the ransom; since, you are having your entire files in yourbackup. Keep in mind that the backup data should be updated regularly. Then only you can able to recover your files with the current status.
Involve Patch Management
Attackers will attempt to use some sort of vulnerability. It necessitates the mandatory of patching cadence.
Ensure Your Network Is Segmented
Keeping the network without any segments will allow the attackers to hit your entire infrastructure with a single attack. Hence it is best to segment the network to ensure the protection of other segments from the infected segment.
The phishing attacks have enhanced substantially over the years. Hackers now frequently using the identity of C-level executives or administrate to offer their emails the seriousness they want. These tricked emails are used to send a request for a bank transfer or W-2Information; hence, it can be broken.
How To Overcome This Threat?
Train Your Employees
Encouragethe user awareness training to make your employees be skeptical of what they are sent and meticulous about potential threats via the proper channels. The training should make employees to learn few things including:
Employee Email Authentication Technologies
There are several technologies like DKIM,Open SPF, and DNSSec. The organization can consider these technologies to restrict the chances of their domain or website being used by the phishing scanner.