Hot Trends in Cyber Security World Rising Data Threats

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The early IT scenario is gradually weathering away. Let us forget about the old and aging computer system and IT experts are increasingly dealing with the threats posed by Cloud, and Internet of Things, and mobile or wireless technology. If the data is contained within the systems, it can travel through various data centers routers, and hosts. The cyber criminals are getting smart with each day that passed: 

  • An attack called Man-in-the-Middle if happens can listen to entire data conversation
  • Use spy software & Google Glass for tracking of fingerprint movement on the touch screen
  • Putting memory-removing malware on the point-of-sale system
  • Tailored attacks that directed at stealing particular data 

Hot Technologies

Context-aware behavior analytics is devised on the principle that unusual behavior can be regarded as nefarious behaviors. Snowden took advantage of super root and downloaded 2 million files to the USB stick. That is an unusual behavior. As the companies are overwhelmed by useless security alerts, the organizations are using sophisticated behavioral analytics for monitoring and identifying suspicious behavior and transactions.

  1. Bio-printing: No matter how hard and fast the employees can try or use the mouse, these are bio-printing markers and are capable of being monitored. Then, the companies are now using mobile phone printing that analyzes audio information and identifies spoofing caller IDs.
  2. Mobile Location Track: The Geo-location can be a vital indicator for the behavior. Does the mobile phone log onto many accounts from the unknown city? 
  3. Behavioral Profiles: As human beings are habitual creatures, the companies are creating behavior-related profiles of the users, accounts, and clients, or contractors, even for devices and colleagues. Then, they monitor how the concerned user’s behavior changes overtime time-to-time and device-2-device. If the past behavior didn’t match the concurrent behavior, it could create a security issue.
  4. 3rd Parties Big Data: Let’s take an example where a criminal creates a fake company and invites applications to fill up various positions to have the access to personal information, the Big data analytic can alert people of its suspicious nature.
  5. Exterior Threat Intelligence: Do the contractors or competitors being targeted? Do certain accounts get associated with the fraud? Do the hackers use the same IP block across multiple attacks? Intelligence assembling is one of the key strategies to understand criminal behavior.
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Latest Breach Detection

The hacking scenario is so upgraded these days that the cyber criminals are using Zero-Day (0-Day) vulnerability to establish control and gather data from network and computer systems without being identified. This can be regarded as a serious threat to data integrity. When these innovative techniques get combined with machine learning and behavior analytics, they can detect these breaches and track them to sources.

Virtual Dispersive Networking 

This technique handles Man-in-the-Middle attacks that usually cracks traditional encryptions and attack intermediate nodes. In this innovative technique, the message is divided into several parts, and then they are encrypted and are also routed into various protocols on individual paths. As the data is spilled, and routed, and encrypted in many places, the hackers are unable to find the data.