Cybersecurity is important today because of everyone’s reliance on technology, from collaboration, communication and data collection to e-commerce and entertainment. Every organization that needs to provide services to their customers and employees must protect their IT ‘network’ – all applications and connected devices from laptops, desktops to servers and smart phones.
While traditionally all of this has existed on a “corporate network” – today’s networks are usually just made up of the devices themselves and how they’re connected: over the internet, sometimes through VPNs, to the homes and cafes where people work, to the cloud and data centers where the services are located. So what threats does this modern network face?
Let’s look at them in more detail.
#1 Misconfigured
According to recent Verizon research, misconfiguration and misuse now account for 14% of breaches. Misconfiguration errors occur when configuring less secure systems or applications. This can happen when you change a setting without fully understanding the consequences or when an incorrect value is entered. Could create a critical vulnerability – for example, a misconfigured firewall could allow unauthorized access to the internal network, or a misconfigured web server could leak sensitive information .
#2 Outdated Software
Software and application developers are constantly releasing updates with patches to cover discovered vulnerabilities in their code. Applying patches to fix these vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire network of devices can be time-consuming and complicated to implement – but it’s essential. If you don’t update your software, firmware, and operating systems to the latest versions when they’re released, you’re exposing your network. The Vulnerability Scanner gives you a real-time inventory of all software that needs updating, and detects misconfigurations that compromise your security, so you can stay safe. possible.
#3 DoS Attack
The former two threats are often exploited to breach the network and steal information, but a Denial of Service (DoS) attack aims to shut down your network and make it inaccessible.
This can be done in a number of ways, either by malware or by flooding the target network with traffic or sending information that causes problems, such as requesting overly complex queries that cause problems. database lock. In each case, the DoS attack prevents customers or employees from using the service or resource they expect.
DoS attacks often target the websites of well-known organizations such as banks, media companies, and governments. While DoS attacks don’t usually result in data theft or loss, they can cost you a lot of time and money to deal with. A properly configured content delivery network (CDN) can help protect websites against DoS attacks and other common malicious attacks.
#4 Application bug
A software bug is a bug, flaw, or bug in an application or system that causes it to produce incorrect or unexpected results. Errors exist in every piece of code for all sorts of reasons, from improper testing or messy code to lack of communication or incomplete specification documentation.
Not all bugs are network security issues or are vulnerable to exploits where an attacker can use the bug to access the network and run code remotely. However, some errors like SQL injection can be very serious and allow attackers to compromise your website or steal data. SQL injection not only exposes sensitive data, but can also allow remote access and control of affected systems. This is just one example of one type of application error, but there are many more.
Injections are common if developers don’t have adequate security training or where to make mistakes and don’t review code – or when combined with inadequate continuous security testing. However, even with all of this done – mistakes can still happen which is why it still ranks as the #1 threat out of the Top Ten Web Application Security Risks. head of OWASP. Fortunately, many types of vulnerabilities (and other application-level security flaws) can be detected with authenticated web vulnerability scanners and penetration testing for more sensitive applications.
#5 Manage the attack surface
Can you secure your business if you don’t know what Internet properties you own? Inefficient. Without an up-to-date and complete inventory of assets that use the internet, you don’t know what services are available and how attackers might try to infiltrate. But updating them and making sure they’re being monitored for weak spots isn’t exactly a walk in the park as IT parks grow and evolve almost daily.
When companies try to document their systems, they often rely on manually updating a simple spreadsheet, but amid configuration changes, new technology, and hidden IT, they rarely know the exact financials. property they own or where. But detecting, tracking, and protecting all of these assets is a critical component of strong security for any business.
A Vulnerability Scanner is a dynamic, automated tool that can monitor what’s exposed to the internet and restrict anything that doesn’t need to be there – such as the old Windows 2003 box people use. forgot or a web server a developer shot for a quick test before leaving the business…
It can also continuously monitor your cloud accounts and automatically add any new external IP addresses or hostnames as targets. And it can help with ‘property discovery’ when companies need help finding their IP addresses and domains that they don’t even know about.
What does this mean for you?
Attackers use automated tools to identify and exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to insecure systems, networks or data – whether your organization is large or small. Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities with automated tools is simple: the attacks listed above are cheap, easy to execute, and often indiscriminate, so every organization is at risk. All it takes is a hole for an attacker to gain access to your network.
Knowing where your vulnerabilities and weaknesses are is the first and most important step. If you detect your security vulnerabilities early, you can address them before an attacker can exploit them. Vulnerability Scanner is a cloud-based service for identifying security holes in computer systems, networks, and software. Vulnerability Scanners provide a service that continuously searches for network threats and vulnerabilities – everything from weak passwords to configuration errors or unpatched software – so you can address them before the attackers do. attack exploit them.
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