IN the so-called new tomorrow caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, technology companies said individuals and companies must give importance to the protection of their data and networks from the threats that abound in the cyber landscape.
Local computing technology Radenta Technologies, through its Global Reconnaissance and Defense Intelligent System (GRIDS) program, recently announced it is offering a free 60-day Managed Security Operation Center (SOC) access to experience the benefits of using the most advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology without the cost and complexity of owning and administering a SIEM system.
The company said GRIDS provides an enterprise with the ability to improve threat detection, automate reporting and reduce complexity associated with your security monitoring and log management needs.
By enlisting in GRIDS, Radenta said an organization can get real-time monitoring, advanced contextual analysis and better visibility through customized reports and dashboards to proactively prevent, detect and address security threats. “A team of highly skilled cybersecurity analysts and engineers are on guard 24/7 so you can focus on other pressing matters knowing that your security is rock solid,” the company said in a statement. Other features include Infrastructre Protection, Intelligence and Analytics, and Security Control and Management.
Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky, meanwhile, has urged a change in the virtual habits and security awareness of consumers. According to the company, 40 percent of consumers from the Asia-Pacific (Apac) have faced incidents where their private information was accessed by someone who did not have their consent. This is while more than 5 in 10 online users in the region have expressed their equal concern in terms of guarding their virtual and physical lives.
“With the current remote working situation in the majority of countries in the Apac, digital privacy should be a concern for both personal users and enterprises. Our corporate networks have reached the comfort of our homes, in turn increasing cybercriminals’ surface of attack. It’s definitely high time to improve cyber hygiene for both our personal and professional reputation and peace of mind,” Stephan Neumeier, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky, said in a press statement.
Some of the breaches involve accounts being accessed without permission (40 percent), illegal takeover of devices (39 percent), confidential data being stolen and used (31 percent), private data being accessed by someone without consent, and private information being divulged publicly (20 percent). “To protect yourself during this critical time, it is important to be careful about the personal particulars you share online, and to understand how these data will be used. Revisit your privacy settings and tweak them accordingly. The Internet is a place of opportunities and anyone can benefit from it as long as we know how to intelligently manage our data and our online habits,” Neumeier added.
For its part, British cybersecurity firm Sophos recently warned that paying cybercriminals to restore data encrypted during a ransomware attack is diffcult and an expensive path to recovery. In its State of Ransomware 2020, Sophos said the total cost of recovery almost doubles when organizations pay a ransom. The survey polled 5,000 IT decision-makers in organizations in 26 countries across six continents, including Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
One in three organizations in the Philippines (30 percent) had experienced a ransomware attack in the previous 12 months. On a global level, data was encrypted in nearly three quarters (73 percent) of attacks that successfully breached an organization.
“Organizations may feel intense pressure to pay the ransom to avoid damaging downtime. On the face of it, paying the ransom appears to be an effective way of getting data restored, but this is illusory. Sophos’ findings show that paying the ransom makes little difference to the recovery burden in terms of time and cost. This could be because it is unlikely that a single magical decryption key is all that’s needed to recover. Often, the attackers may share several keys and using them to restore data may be a complex and time-consuming affair,” Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist of Sophos, said in a press statement.