Long-Running Cyberattacks Become the Norm
Jai Vijayan
Technology • 1/09/15 5:31:48 pm • Views: 675
One thing that the depressing string of data breaches this year shows is that cyber attackers have become skilled at staging long-lasting data exfiltration campaigns.
Security experts aren’t clear whether this is a new trend or something that companies are finally waking up to only now. Either way, the attacks represent a real problem for companies that are still stuck with perimeter-centric defense strategies that are focused purely on keeping intruders out of the enterprise network.
The attacks on companies like Sony, Home Depot, and Target over the past year show that many hackers have eschewed smash-and-grab attacks for campaigns that are highly targeted and explicitly designed to extract huge amounts of data over a period of time.
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