Continuous Threat Detection

350,000 new malware strains everyday Your existing security controls can only block 99.5% of them. That means 1750 new malware attacks every day can bypass your security devices New malware and virus variants are produced every day. According to AV-TEST Institute, there are over 350,000 new malware samples registered every day. So, you can imagine that if your existing security controls can block 99.5% of the new malware every day, there are still more than 1,750 malware threats that can bypass your security controls and get into your network. Even worse, studies show most threat detection services organizations' have in place are unable to prevent 50% of the new malwares. This is an alarming figure and should serve as a wake-up call for companies to take appropriate action when it comes to advanced threat detection, implementing network traffic analysis tools, and getting the latest and best threat hunting and detection software available.

Prevention alone cannot stop attacks. Security teams must recognize that new threats require new paradigms and threat detection services to defend against them. Changing their mindset from keeping all attackers out of their network to assuming the hackers are already in their network will help develop more robust strategies to identify and stop attacks before they cause damage. Understanding mean-time-to-identify (MTTI) and mean-time-to-Response (MTTR) is important. Security events can become breaches if they have months to spread throughout a network. Security teams need to find and fix any security gaps through threat hunting and detection to reduce MTTI and MTTR; the faster they can find and respond, the less damage a breach will incur.