Cybersecurity professionals must be able to adapt to changing risks, evaluating and addressing vulnerabilities only to begin again as new dangers emerge. Companies need experts who will secure customer and company data by identifying, preventing and recovering from attacks common in today’s threat landscape.
Ransomware locks access to critical data
Enterprise organizations and even cities can experience operational shutdown when hackers employ ransomware. Internal and external security professionals run simulations of ransomware attacks to identify vulnerabilities, establish protocols for breach response and manage teams that provide on- and off-site support during a cyber event.
Phishing targets users to surpass security measures
Cybercriminals convince private individuals or employees to reveal login credentials or open corrupted files. They can then gain access to larger banks of data, download confidential information and sell it to third parties.
Malicious code infiltrates servers
Hackers utilize Structured Language Query injection to penetrate server networks and retrieve consumer names, credit card numbers and other financial information, costing enterprises hundreds of millions of dollars and reputational damage.
Data overloads shut down site access
Attackers flood servers with repeated requests, overloading them with data packets. Hackers often use these cyber events to mask other breaches or test their target’s response capabilities. These actions can reduce revenues due to site downtime and damage consumer trust by making sites appear unstable.
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10 Cybersecurity Best Practices for IT, IS, Network Data Security by Observe It
Global Ransomware Damage Costs Predicted To Exceed $5 Billion In 2017 by Cybersecurity Ventures
Three-Quarters of Organizations Experienced Phishing Attacks in 2017, Report Uncovers by TripWire
SQL injection explained: How these attacks work and how to prevent them by CSO
DDoS attacks increased 91% in 2017 thanks to IoT by Tech Republic