Posted by Tom Kendall in Q1 Labs, Risk Management, Security Intelligence, SIEM, Webinars
Increasingly in the media headlines I read stories of young hackers causing havoc to businesses by infiltrating their networks through malicious attacks.
The worry to organizations however, is the number of these hackers who have never studied computer science but have an ambition to be a software developer and see it as a challenge to try to break into a businesses network undetected. Although this may seem an innocent personal challenge to them, this is ultimately aligned with greed and more often than not these people want to go for bigger and better.
Security teams need to be aware of methods to detect and instantly act upon this type of malicious hacking from so called ?amateurs.? The IBM X-Force 2012 Mid-year Trend and Risk Report details the variety of attacks that a business could expect a hacker to use (read more here).? A key point highlighted is the complexity of an organization?s network, moving from a traditional office only model to a world of interconnected devices and services. This has made it increasingly difficult to get a clear real-time snapshot of what is happening in the network, making it easier for amateur hackers to get in without raising any alarms.
In a recorded webcast with SCMagazine UK, Chris Poulin, IBM Security Systems Strategist details how to combat these young hackers, through QRadar?s anomaly detection capabilities and advanced forensic analysis, to quickly identify when a breach is occurring on your network. Click here to view.
On a final note, let?s remind our young technophiles that it?s just as challenging to detect and defend against malicious attackers as it is to become one, so stay away from the dark side!
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Source: http://blog.q1labs.com/2012/11/07/but-dad-all-i-wanted-to-be-was-a-software-developer/
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