IT Security Mimics Intelligence Services More than You Realize

Intelligence services may be the security industry’s boogeyman right now, but for a long time, IT security has done a good job of following the government’s lead when it comes to developing new approaches and strategies.At the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, Inbar Raz of PerimeterX illustrated how security has been in lockstep with the way intelligence agencies do business.“The information security world world follows nation-state security strategies pretty closely,” Raz said. “We have identical missions.” Starting with perimeter defenses and eventually landing at on-premises protection, security products and services have mimicked government’s deployment of border controls and internal security services with firewalls and endpoint protection respectively. The next step is understanding what hackers are doing and learning about adversaries and their tactics in order to proactively close the doors on threats; in other words, counterintelligence.