A New Approach to Data Protection

A prevalent strategy today revolves around implementing controls to identify when data is compromised and how to recover quickly from an attack. One such approach that is increasingly rising in popularity is endpoint protection. While this may seem like the ideal solution today, it brings its own set of drawbacks, including challenging implementations, interoperability issues, human resourcing requirements, and alert fatigue to name a few.

One of the greatest drawbacks may be that despite having endpoint protection in place, bad actors can successfully bypass these protections by compromising identity and access credentials, often through popular forms of attacks including phishing, business email compromise, and social engineering. Instead, a more effective approach to data protection would involve solutions that can detect when data access is abused.

One of the most important things to consider when it comes to cybersecurity is that there is no "one-size fits all" solution. Instead, a better approach towards getting ahead of threats and proactively protecting data is by removing security control silos and adopting a holistic security approach.

For instance, ransomware is one of the most common types of attack today. While there are several solutions that can detect known ransomware variants or the active process of encrypting traffic, these activities performed by these solutions may result in overly strict measures and practices that unnecessarily disrupt business. A more proactive approach can not only prevent significant damage to your business, but does so without impacting day-to-day operations.

An alternative would be to develop processes that allow you to get ahead of threats and to build a technology stack that facilitates these processes. An example includes Vectra's Attack Signal Intelligence solution, which can automatically detect known and unknown threats in real-time, granting the ability to identify the early signs of ransomware prior to any data exfiltration or encryption. In conjunction with Superna's full visibility into the unstructured data footprint and the ability to snapshot file systems and object stores for placement in protective immutable states, users can now facilitate proactive data protection.