Product Cycle
vs.
Threat Cycle

Security threats of the past have often been mitigated easily by the latest product upgrade or signature update. Or to put it another way the product cycles were enough to subdue attacks. But in the last few years the rewards for successfully infiltrating a company large or small company have increased significantly. The rewards have increase so much that it has been published that the Russian mafia makes more off cyber-crime than drugs.

This has heightened the sophistication of cyber-criminals. Today's cyber-criminals can easily be government operatives from small countries, their main goal being corporate espionage. However, they are not only after small business's company information but their customer's information as well.

Social security numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, and credit information are very lucrative in the underground. Also having access to machines unknowingly infected with bots pays high dividends. This all adds up to one thing. The bad guys are spending a lot of time and money researching the latest products for weaknesses. Thus they are learning how to attack around them and in many cases compromise them.

When is comes down to it, these threat cycles happen much faster and are more frequent than product cycles. With the increased complexity of networks and even operating systems, there are more holes to compromise. Today if a machine is broken into it is almost certain that it will contain a backdoor if not multiple backdoors. Many of these holes are difficult if not impossible to find and repair.

Network Strategies uses layered security practices and a combination of tools to find these attacks and more often to prevent them. Many of these attacks appears as just anomalies. They require constant attention and communications with the users. This is where Network Strategies excels. Since we take ownership of the security structure we actively track down anomalies and work hand in hand with end users.

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