National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is turning 16 this October. This year’s theme is all about driving behavioral change and encouraging accountability to own IT, secure IT and protect IT. That’s a great theme because it should live at the core of any enterprise cyberdefence strategy.
In order to own, secure or protect IT, though, organizations in any industry need to know the fundamentals of how cybersecurity really works. Here’s a new perspective to take in order to keep any enterprise network, data and users protected from tomorrow’s threats.
Cybercrime-as-a-Service Business Model
Cybercrime isn’t just about major data breaches that dominate news headlines. It encompasses any criminal activity that is enabled by a computer.
Cybercriminals have realized that their campaigns can be more successful if they monetize their skill sets beyond developing that one campaign that will yield the big pay day. In this regard, they’ve modeled the cybercrime economy on big business – they even take weekends and offer Black Friday deals. Today, just like everyone else, they’re working to a cloud model. That’s right, cybercrime has become globally commercialized as Cybercrime-as-a-Service. Virus writers aren’t just offering their malware as one-offs anymore. They’re selling access to their latest exploit kits through On-Demand services.
The commercialization of cybercrime is putting immense amounts of pressure on corporate IT teams and CISOs to fill the widening security technology and talent gaps. That begs the questions, who is getting to the next top security talent first?
Under the Hoodie – How Malware Works
Cybersecurity awareness also means getting technical and knowing how malware actually works.
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