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The goal of every cybersecurity strategy is to stop cyberthreats before they have a material impact. This has resulted in many organizations seeking to be more proactive in their response to potential threats by employing solutions to detect and prevent specific types of cyberattacks by monitoring for the earliest indicators of attacks found within network traffic.
Nearly every type of cyberattack (with the exception of malware-less phishing attacks that rely solely on social engineering) includes some use of network communications as part of the attack to retrieve commands, perform actions, authenticate, or otherwise interact with external hosts. For that reason, the idea of watching network traffic for leading indicators of threat activity has stemmed an evolution of network monitoring to be used specifically for detecting threatening network activity. And by adding in the ability to respond to detected threats in network…
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February 12, 2021 at 04:21PM
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