Cyber Defense eMagazine March Edition for 2022
The view from the Publisher’s desk is very encouraging, based on celebrating 10 years of growth and success at Cyber Defense Magazine! When our tiny team began our journey at Cyber Defense Media Group (CDMG) together in January 2012, we were happy to help smaller, lesser-known innovators of infosec, get their message out there and Rise Above the noise. Now, after 10 years, we’re even helping multi-billion-dollar companies and governments around the globe with our offices in DC, London, FL, NY and other locations in play, as we continue to scale, thanks to you – our readers, listeners, viewers and media partners. Beyond the magazine, in response to the demands of our markets, the scope of CDMG’s activities has grown into many media endeavors. They now include Cyber Defense Awards; Cyber Defense Conferences; Cyber Defense Professionals (job postings site being revamped); Cyber Defense TV, Radio, and Webinars; and Cyber Defense Ventures (partnering with investors). Please check them out and see how much more CDMG has to offer! Very respectfully and with much appreciation, Gary Miliefsky, Publisher
The view from the Publisher’s desk is very encouraging, based on celebrating 10 years of growth and success at Cyber Defense Magazine! When our tiny team began our journey at Cyber Defense Media Group (CDMG) together in January 2012, we were happy to help smaller, lesser-known innovators of infosec, get their message out there and Rise Above the noise. Now, after 10 years, we’re even helping multi-billion-dollar companies and governments around the globe with our offices in DC, London, FL, NY and other locations in play, as we continue to scale, thanks to you – our readers, listeners, viewers and media partners. Beyond the magazine, in response to the demands of our markets, the scope of CDMG’s activities has grown into many media endeavors. They now include Cyber Defense Awards; Cyber Defense Conferences; Cyber Defense Professionals (job postings site being revamped); Cyber Defense TV, Radio, and Webinars; and Cyber Defense Ventures (partnering with investors).
Please check them out and see how much more CDMG has to offer!
Very respectfully and with much appreciation,
Gary Miliefsky, Publisher
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the particular victims being targeted by the hackers. Customized attacks against mid-market companies<br />
have expanded 4x in 2021. Insider threats, whether accidental or malicious, have also doubled in 2021,<br />
showing the greater role employees have played in cyber vulnerabilities during the pandemic.<br />
Closing the Mid-Market <strong>Cyber</strong> Security Gap with Intelligent Automation and AI<br />
Mid-market spending on cyber security was up in 2021 as companies began to feel the heat from cyber<br />
criminals testing their defenses. But most of the industry’s comprehensive cyber security solutions are<br />
aimed at large enterprise customers – and mid-market companies need options beyond stitching together<br />
piecemeal point solutions.<br />
The three challenges to mid-market cyber security remain: overly expensive and complicated solutions,<br />
greatly expanded attack surface driven by remote work, and increased attacks by hackers seeking to<br />
exploit the mid-market. To overcome these challenges, companies need af<strong>for</strong>dable solutions that<br />
augment existing IT with built-in intelligence and non-disruptive security workflows. This is where<br />
automation and AI come in.<br />
As I said earlier, 88% of email malware solutions are misconfigured – and that doesn’t even account <strong>for</strong><br />
cloud malware, Wi-Fi phishing, and a huge range of emerging attack vectors <strong>for</strong> which most mid-sized<br />
companies have no protections in place. Why should such misconfigurations and omissions leave a<br />
company exposed to cyber threats, especially when a single breach could paralyze a business or cause<br />
enough damage to close its doors <strong>for</strong>ever? Where possible, the responsibility <strong>for</strong> effective cyber defense<br />
needs to be shifted off the shoulders of overstretched IT teams and onto machines. AI must be deployed<br />
to enable small teams with limited resources to effectively manage large and complex situations. Small<br />
companies must seek solutions that simplify the security experience: comprehensive, all-in-one solutions<br />
that are easy to deploy and easy to operate by way of intuitive UX design and AI automation.<br />
The truth is, most small and mid-sized companies don’t need dozens of security professionals to manage<br />
straight<strong>for</strong>ward and common security tasks. Look <strong>for</strong> security solutions that instead make use of<br />
intelligent automation to reduce the load on IT and security teams. Intelligent automation can<br />
automatically block malware threats, prevent accidental or malicious data leakage, lock down rogue<br />
accounts, and prevent the majority of incoming attack attempts, all without human intervention. For the<br />
small percentage of issues that AI and intelligent automation can’t resolve, a concise and clear notification<br />
can be sent to administrators that can be resolved quickly and easily.<br />
Even in this rapidly evolving cyber climate, the cost and complexity of security can be managed, and<br />
escalating cyber threats can be controlled. Comprehensive cyber security can and should be fully<br />
accessible to mid-sized companies. It’s time <strong>for</strong> mid-market IT leaders reconsider the standard point<br />
<strong>Cyber</strong> <strong>Defense</strong> <strong>eMagazine</strong> – <strong>March</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Edition</strong> 93<br />
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