A DNS Security Architecture as SecOps Force Multiplier

Securing the cloud comes with many challenges, which have further been compounded with the pandemic and the increased attack surface the cloud brings. As part of a global research project, Vectra surveyed security professionals to find out the impact the past 12 months have had on their organisation’s corporate risk profiles and their own jobs.

Only with full visibility into employee or third-party activity across a company network can even the earliest indicators of an insider threat be detected. By monitoring both user and file activity, security and compliance professionals can be alerted to risky, out-of-policy activities and any unexplained changes in user behavior in real-time; successfully stopping and investigating any activity before it becomes a full-blown breach. Research from The Ponemon Institute shows that Financial Services organizations face the highest penalty costs of any other industry ($12.05 million annually) when they experience an insider-led incident, though they are closely followed by the Energy & Utilities and Retail sector. This cost alone is a very concrete reason to address what otherwise might seem to be an invisible problem.

It has become an established fact that the human factor is the most important element to secure in any organization if security is to be maintained. This case study will take real-life examples (with no names used!) and examine some actual security incidents caused by human error and elaborate on the root cause and prevention tips resulting from these events.

The exponential growth of users, apps, and data has led to an increase in legitimate data access, complicating the task of determining whether data access is appropriate. Traditional security approaches tend to lock things down and limit data usage by deploying broad sets of security policies. Companies that take this approach, however, are still suffering from data breaches. In the meantime, security teams are often overwhelmed with a significant amount of alerts that don’t provide actionable insights.