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Combating Today’s Prominent Cyber Attacks

POSTED BY Jody Ma Kissling on 12.06.2011
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On Thursday, December 15 2011 Lancope will present a complimentary webinar “Leveraging Netflow to Combat Today's Most Prominent Cyber Attacks.” Participants will learn about the types of cyber attacks they need to be prepared to address in 2012, and how NetFlow can help improve their security strategy for the new year and beyond.

Everyday businesses, governments, organizations, schools, and consumers extend the reach of information and communications technologies. Our modern culture is interconnected by information technologies – and irreversibly dependent on it. The increased adoption of information technology has also been accompanied by the development of a new set of cyber threats:

  • Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
  • Insider threats
  • Industrialized attacks
  • Employee misuse & abuse
  • Fully automated attacks

Just take a moment to grasp the extent of these cyber attacks:

  • Hackers take down CIA website, steal Sony user data and cause mayhem for Google online security.
  • Epsilon, the largest email marketing service company in the world, announced it was hacked by a group targeting the company's email lists.
  • A cyber war may be on the horizon after Google accused hackers in China of breaking into the personal email accounts of US officials
  • Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack
  • The Pentagon has responded saying it will consider computer sabotage an act of war and would consider responding to such acts as it would any other threat to the country.

This list is just the tip-of-the-iceberg, as sitting below the surface of these six articles are thousands of other stories about the increase in cyber threats. Obviously, this is a topic that we need to understand and Adam Powers, Lancope's CTO, will explain how to harness the latest developments in enterprise-ready flow collection and analysis solutions to help combat these threats.

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