Technology-driven security was right at the heart of the recent INTERPOL World Congress – with cybersecurity and Symantec’s leading solutions a key focus.
A key message to come out of the event was that, with more than 60,000 incidents of malware software created daily to infiltrate security systems, global efforts must now enhance cybersecurity through robust partnerships between law enforcement and private sector Internet security companies, as well as coordinated regulations across countries.
Symantec, as one of the strategic partners to the Congress, revealed its own plans for countering such challenges, including new directions for Threat Protection, Information Protection and Cyber Security Services. Indeed, exposing and dealing with such threats is an essential part of Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report 2015 (ISTR) report.
Symantec used this exclusive opportunity to showcase the strengths and unique capabilities that it can offer by sharing insights on the company’s unified security strategy and its importance to the future security landscape with customer, partners and industry analysts.
Meanwhile, at a time when more and more customers are using cloud-based services and leveraging emerging new platforms such as IoT, Symantec is undertaking a cross-company effort to gather a lot more telemetry from all of its products and turn those products into rich ‘security cameras’. Through organic development, acquisitions and deep partnerships, those ‘cameras’ will be installed in new customer environments: in the cloud, virtualised environments, IoT systems, etc.
Symantec will offer capabilities to help customers better protect their environments. First, it will create the industry’s first app ecosystem for security – a secure app store where customers can test and purchase 3rd-party apps to analyse their collected data in innovative ways to help keep them secure. Secondly, Symantec will build a secure social platform where customers can interact with their IT security colleagues in other companies, sharing information, policies, best practices and intelligence with their private industry peer group.
This is Symantec’s vision for “Unified Security” where we uncover real-world attack campaigns and help organizations protect their most critical assets.
Symantec’s Cyber Security Services was at the heart of many discussions throughout the week, covering topics such as:
- How to identify and prioritise key threats
- How to respond quickly to contain the impact of, and recover from, an attack
- How to measure and demonstrate the value of our spending on security
- How best to use the resources and capabilities we have to protect our organisation.
The key is to take a risk-based approach. With the sheer volume and sophistication of today’s threats meaning you can’t protect the organisation from everything, it is up to the CISO to evaluate where the key assets lie, attach a value to these and calculate how much it would cost the business, if such assets were compromised. That’s the kind of language that the business can understand – whereas it’s the people and process side of information security, rather than the technology, that enterprises are often so fixated on.
Threats are becoming far more pernicious, particularly through advanced persistent threats, with attackers growing ever more sophisticated and determined. Symantec’s mission is to remain ahead of such attackers, so companies can robustly defend their information and respond accordingly to such threats.
Check out this blog by Paul Wood, Executive Editor of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, for more insights on the findings from this year’s ISTR: The Threat Landscape Grows Ever Darker – Time To Fight Back!