Know the Unknown, Always!

Arbor Networks Incident Response Profile Assessment Highlights the Business Benefits of Hunting for Unknown Threats

Arbor Networks have launched a new tool to help security teams assess their current incident response profile and capabilities versus their peers and state of the art practices. The assessment provides actionable insights to prompt companies to evolve beyond existing detect and respond models that are becoming increasingly ineffective in the current threat environment.

The Arbor Assessment tool is based on a year-long set of in-depth interviews of security officers across multiple industries. Incident Response Profiles that used “proactive” processes and security resources to hunt for attacks and integrate threat intelligence actively into their response function, had found and contained advanced attacks much faster than those in Detect and Respond models. Organizations that had matured their functions to include threat hunting and integrated intelligence processes reported mean dwell and contain times of under 21 days to identify, and less than 5 days to contain a threat. Industry averages are 10 times these metrics.

“There is a major shift happening in security today, not by choice, but out of necessity as organizations find themselves lagging behind attackers who are launching extremely targeted, advanced threat attack campaigns,” said Matthew Moynahan, president of Arbor Networks. “Organizations are looking at how they can structure and approach security operations and incident functions and teams differently to face-off against the new attack landscape more effectively. We are hopeful that this assessment tool is just one of the ways we can help organizations evolve their practices to close the gap against attackers.”