Sponsored Sometimes it feels like the hackers and malware creators are in an arms race with the teams tasked with protecting systems and data. New tools and technologies are being deployed on both sides all the time.
Criminals are no longer just stealing sensitive data, they are also commandeering resources and subverting them for their own ends, such as cryptocurrency mining or using systems as botnets to attack other targets. Hackers have even started to target the firmware by infiltrating code into the system BIOS where it can loiter undetected by security tools running at the operating system level.
For hard-pressed IT departments, this means there are several priorities that need to be addressed when securing end-user devices. These are the ability to detect and protect against threats; keeping user identity and credentials secure to prevent these being misused; securing data against unauthorised access; and ..
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