The most effective way to ensure privacy and security is by implementing a 'security by design' approach

Sanjay Manohar, Managing Director,  McAfee Enterprise India

Measures to be taken for Cyber threats  

Enterprise threats are growing in volume and sophistication, while rapidly targeting new vulnerabilities. Security practices must not only be established but updated and followed to safeguard against these agile, versatile threats.

There is a critical need to maintain an edge over cybercriminals and ensuring security teams are equipped to anticipate and outwit their next move. By adopting an active hunting approach, enterprises can develop an operational cycle to plan, execute, and review intelligence-driven activities, strengthen defences and stay one step ahead. There is a need for the cybersecurity framework to evolve towards deployment of a sustainable, proactive approach to adapt intelligently, and rapidly as and when advanced threat forms are identified. This progression mandates that CISOs transform their mindset, that has been traditionally focused on the prevention portion of the ‘prevent-detect-correct’ threat defence lifecycle to a balanced focus on detection and correction approach.

From an industry point of view, implementing a ‘security by design’ approach is the one of the most effective ways to ensure privacy and security. This ensures that data protection strategies are well incorporated into the technology, at the design stage. This allows the product or service to accept new technologies as threats evolve as well as work together with other systems as a cohesive defence.

Solutions for sophisticated attacks

Online threats are growing at a pace unprecedented, with McAfee Labs observing an average of 588 malware threats per minute. This makes it difficult for legacy threat detection systems to monitor threat behaviour and detect new malicious code. One of the biggest challenges of AI is that it is a two-way street - if security teams use AI to prevent cyberattacks, the attackers too use AI to conceal or dispense more effective attacks.

Last month, we released a substantial expansion to our XDR platform aimed at proactively stopping targeted attacks. This expansion of our MVISION extended detection and response (XDR) solution by correlating with its endpoint security solution, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and our threat intelligence solution powered by MVISION Insights. Our objective is to protect organisations against threats while making security operations from device to cloud easier. Our solution combines machine learning techniques with human analysis across complex threat campaigns using AI-guided investigations. This delivers end-to-end threat visibility across all attack surfaces, using automation to streamline operations, so enterprises can foresee an attack and not scuffle to contain a breach.