5 Important New Cybersecurity Technologies

No matter what business you are in, cybersecurity services are important. Every organization has information to protect. The ways people access information without authorization advance every day. It is important for businesses to advance the ways they protect information. These five important new technologies are here to redefine cybersecurity.

One of the oldest challenges faced by even the most advanced cybersecurity companies is how to handle a hack after it has happened. A lot of cybersecurity focuses on protecting systems against improper access. However, no protection is perfect. Therefore, a system may be breached if it is of interest to hackers.

Once hackers access the system, they can do whatever they want almost undetected while using legitimate but compromised credentials. User analytics offers a way to analyze how people act within a system. If there is unusual behavior, this can be an alarm that something is awry.

This isn’t strictly a cybersecurity solution. However, many organizations are using deep learning to help them better understand patterns in attacks. This can be applied with user analytics to detect malicious behavior. It can also be used to predict different ways that an unwanted individual may try to access a system.

Deep learning can be used for penetration testing. An advanced software can explore more ways of entering a system than a human tester. Naturally, machines are not as creative as people. However, they can be used for a quantity over quality approach. With deep learning, testing algorithms can get close to being as innovative as people.

Login credentials are woefully inadequate for offer security. They can help to manage system access, but the reality is that they fall short of the mark in almost every way. Most significantly, passwords rely on users to be secure. That is simply not something you can expect in a realistic situation.

One of the ways of overcoming this problem is by using more forms of authentication. For example, many organizations use public keys to help prevent outside access. Of course, keys can be stolen, decrypted and otherwise attacked. A solution may be hardware authentication. This is tying the authentication to the specific hardware being used.

Some manufacturers are already working on this. Notable, some of Intel’s more recent processors feature this.

Typically, attackers are trying to access data that they can monetize. There are other reasons for attacks, but this is probably the most common. Major breaches have exposed how significant the damage can be from such an attack. Therefore, it is important for businesses to put in place appropriate data protection mechanisms.

New data loss prevention technologies including advanced encryption and tokenization make it possible to protect data at field and subfield level. This means even if someone gains unauthorized access to a database, he or she may not be able to read any data. Further, this can secure using data easier when system is applied effectively.

Cloud has already proven to be a transformative technology in many ways. Within cybersecurity space, cloud offers an infrastructure-as-a-service opportunity. Providers specialized in security can provide useful cloud solutions that offer businesses all the security of a well-designed, on-premise setup without investment of money or time.

Additionally, organizations can use hybrid setups with both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure to give them additional layers of defense. Many cybersecurity providers are focused on helping organizations use public cloud services as securely as possible.

These technologies are redefining the way that businesses protect their IT assets. If you want to keep your business safe, it is valuable to stay up to date on all latest innovations. With solutions from hardware authentication to deep learning, organizations are getting smarter every day about how they protect themselves.