Businesses are expanding their digital presence very rapidly today. As they evolve, most move their processes and dealings online and over to the cloud, beyond the familiar confines of their firewall and other local network security measures.
With thousands of new web pages being created on a daily basis, it is a daunting task to understand which of these websites, social profiles, and apps could be a threat to your business.
The digital transformation of companies online has given rise to external threats. There are more than 375 new threats that emerge every minute, and to detect, identify, and manage these threats is a task most businesses aren’t equipped to handle.
Cybercriminals exploit digital channels to scam and phish customers, hijack mobile applications, violate your brand’s value, and even impersonate you or your executives. To tackle this challenge, security teams must have the necessary intelligence to defend organizations from an ever-dynamic universe of threats.
What are the Various External Threats Your Business May Be Facing?
An external threat is the risk of somebody outside your company, attempting to exploit your network system vulnerabilities. Various examples of external threats are:
- Malicious software: Malware is a wide range of software that is made with the purpose of damaging a computer system. Examples of malware are Spyware, Ransomware, Adware, worms and viruses, Rootkits and Trojan horses. All these malicious software work differently, often presenting themselves as something genuine, and can cause damage from mild corruption of data and applications to full on hard disk seizures.
- Hacking: Hacking exploits the susceptibilities in a system to access its data.
Hacking is used to obtain information or for carrying out corporate espionage - Social engineered techniques: This modern type of external threat is a technique used to trick people into giving out personal and confidential information. Phishing emails are notorious for asking users to respond by clicking on a link, that then infect your companies network systems.
External Threat Detection and Solutions
To be able to successfully defend your business, your enterprise should proactively address the threat of external sources and their changing landscape.
The first step is to understand the answers to these questions:
- Where are the weaknesses in your security systems?
- What threats are relevant to your organization?
- Where should you focus your resources to keep in tune with digital growth?
- How can your security programs be more resilient?
- Which cyber security services can best provide you with tailored security solutions?
We provide an insight to these questions by crawling and indexing billions of pages daily, detecting threats and understanding them. Our external threats detection services enable an organization with the capability to detect advanced external threats and provide them with solutions to tackle the dangers arising from external threats.
Our VisbilITy service plan includes tools, appliances, and a dedicated cyber desk analyst providing monitoring, triage, and incident management.
- Virus & Threat protection: Helps you scan for threats on your device and address them.
- Account/User protection: Helps ensure that user accounts are protected and properly secured.
- Firewall & Network Protection: Monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and acts on whether to allow or block specific traffic based on a predetermined set of security rules.
- Devices & Application Monitoring: Maintains the security of your devices and the applications running on them.
- DNS: The Domain Name System server translates domain names to machine friendly IP addresses. By switching to a private 3rd party DNS network, you can increase resilience and protect your system against tricky DNS based attacks.
- Cloud service monitoring: Through cloud service monitoring, you will be able to review, observe and manage the workflow in a cloud-based infrastructure. Cloud service monitoring also provides data protection against external threats.
Protect your company’s most valuable and sensitive information with our targeted Cyber Desk Services. We offer large and small businesses targeted, tailored external threat detection and management services. Give us a call today to learn more!