Cyber Defense eMagazine December Edition for 2021

Danny Lopez, CEO, Glasswall
“During this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month, I very much hope executive teams realize
that employees should not be the only line of defense against cyberattacks. With the growing
technological sophistication of data breaches and the sheer volume of threats today, any individual within
a network can easily become a target.
Unfortunately, most employees are unfamiliar with how to properly protect themselves. Attackers know
how to depend on predictable patterns of human behavior to gain an advantage against their targets.
Many users don’t think twice about opening an attachment or clicking a link that appears to be legitimate.
As insider threats have increased by 47% this year, users may also think they are communicating with a
colleague when the account has actually been taken over by an adversary.
The best option is to remove the threat entirely before the user needs to make a choice. Increasingly,
traditional sandboxing and antivirus software aren’t enough. Implementing solution-based file protection
software like Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) can rebuild files to a higher security standard so
users can benefit from safe, clean files and organizational leadership can have peace of mind.”
Surya Varanasi, CTO, StorCentric
“Driven in large part by the COVID pandemic, massive layoffs, and record numbers of people being sent
home virtually overnight to work, learn, shop and live, the number of successful cyberattacks climbed to
dizzying heights. In fact, recent IDC research indicated that over the past year, more than one third of
organizations worldwide experienced a ransomware attack or breach that successfully blocked access
to systems or data. And for those that fell victim, many experienced multiple ransomware events. With
cybercrime projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, it is clear why ensuring your
organization is taking the appropriate measures to ensure cyber safety and security must become priority
number one.
Traditionally, the game plan has been to maintain production data storage on-site, snapshot the data,
replicate to an off-site location, store it to a disk, and then move it to tape storage and/or the cloud.
Unfortunately, cybercriminals know this and have engineered their technology to behave accordingly.
Bad actors can now rather easily use ransomware to infiltrate your network and render all forms of
traditional backup useless.
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