GEC NEWS WIRE“Security Manifesto” to help Organizations Better Respond To The Cybersecurity Challenges
The Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report reveals that organizations must adopt an ‘all hands on deck’ approach to defend against cyber attacks. Cisco’s “Security Manifesto” formally sets a set of security principles as a foundation to achieving security. The principles entail that security must support the business by working with existing architecture. It should be usable, transparent and informative; and should enable visibility and action. Security must be viewed as a “people problem.”
The top three trends that Cisco’s threat intelligence uncovered are snowshoe spam (attackers are sending low volumes of spam from a large set of IP addresses to avoid detection), web exploits hiding in plain site (a sustainable business model as it does not attract too much attention) and malicious combinations ( Flash malware can now interact with JavaScript to hide malicious activity;this type of blended attack is very hard to detect).
“Security is now the responsibility of everyone within an organization, from the board room to individual users. Security leaders and practitioners need the support of the entire business. To protect organizations against attacks across the attack continuum, CISOs need to ensure that their teams have the right tools and visibility to create a strategic security posture, as well as educate users to aid in their own safety and the safety of the business,” commented Rabih Dabboussi, Managing Director, Cisco UAE.
