Ransomware

It is becoming more dangerous day by day. Last year the medical industry was the target. Normally, vulnerable threat actors are acting as services. They focus on the most vital and sensitive data of an organization and ask for higher amounts. In 2021, we can expect more of it.

What does it mean?

• As per the threat landscape reports of 2020, it has been found that there is a year-on-year increment of nearly 715% in ransomware attacks. You definitely have to handle ransomware attacks to save your work.
• User training is vital- i.e. train users to find out and avoid hazardous attachments as well as links- and issuing reminders at regular intervals.
• Major components of your circle protector should have email server filters, URL blocking, and anti-virus signatures.
• System monitoring can provide you an alert of ransomware instantly to command and control.
• A backup and recovery plan is crucial.

Cyber Security-As-A-Service Providers

A lot of organizations don’t have the resources to deal with evolving cybersecurity tasks. The workload has grown as most organizations prefer to work remotely. Now, organizations are looking for outsourcing information security jobs to handle a strong mechanism in place.

What does it mean?

• The organizations referred to as cyber security-as-a-service (CSaaS) providers offer services like security information and event management (SIEM) and security operations center (SOC) systems.
• SOC signifies a location where threat response, security analysis, and monitoring take place. The SOC team consists of engineers and security analysts whereas; SIEM technology assists in collecting alerts and doing documentation for future purposes.

CSaaS provides benefits like scalability, less expensive, and digital transformation.