GEC NEWS WIRENew feature guarantees defacement mitigation in less than 30 seconds and allows organizations to identify and focus on a significantly smaller set of logs.
In order to address the growing cyber threat posed by politically motivated hactivism, Help AG has unveiled the new anti-defacement feature of its Co-ordinated Threat Mitigation (CTM) service. With groups such as Anonymous and the Syrian Electronic Army taking the fight to the cyber battlefield, Stephan Berner, Managing Director at Help AG believes it is time for organizations to take affirmative action. “For many Middle East customers today, a company’s website if their first and primary association with the brand. Defacement of the portal can therefore have significant negative impact on their perception of the brand. Understanding this, Help AG has created a solution which mitigates defacement and leaves our customer’s image untarnished even if they do fall victim to such an attack,” he says.
This service is part of Help AG’s broader CTM offering which is cloud-based. The company has made sure to address two of the primary cloud-related security concerns i.e. sharing of information with a third-party provider and data storage at an external location. Stephan explains, “We carry out all the processing at the customer’s site and only extract generic data that does not contain any sensitive information. Furthermore, the service is hosted in a data center within the Middle East itself and is therefore not subject to any other nations’ laws that could potentially jeopardize the security of the information. We have been completely transparent in our approach which is why even government customers with the greatest security demands have not hesitated to sign up for the service.”
“Web-site attacks are executed in phases and attackers largely rely on tools to first probe a target’s website to uncover details regarding the servers and security mechanisms that are in place. By identifying and blocking such requests in the initial stages, Help AG prevents the exposure of such sensitive information thereby greatly tipping the scales in favour of our customers,” says Stephan. Another advantage of the identification service is that it eliminates the large volumes of log entries typically generated by requests from malicious users, thus allowing organizations to identify and focus on a significantly smaller set of logs.
