The founder of Censornet has warned that the increasing ferocity and volume of cyber-attacks is putting businesses at risk.
Ed Macnair, CEO at the Basingstoke-headquartered firm, highlighted the increasing prevalence of cross-channel attacks in the COVID-19 pandemic.
His company serves more than 1,500 customers globally – including Fever-Tree, the National Portrait Gallery, Hallmark Hotels and Thatchers Cider – via a platform which integrates attack intelligence across email, web and cloud.
鈥淢ost organisations used to view cyber security as a 鈥榯ick box鈥� exercise, largely because they felt detached from the threat,鈥� he tells 老九品茶Cloud.聽
鈥淗owever, in the last couple of years, we鈥檝e seen a phenomenal rise in ransomware and phishing attacks. Cybersecurity has naturally become a much more tangible risk.聽
鈥淚t鈥檚 the increased volume and ferocity of attacks that is forcing more organisations to take a closer look at their cybersecurity defences.鈥�
Censornet claims to bring enterprise-grade security to mid-market clients, and that its 鈥榓utonomous security鈥� technology ensures their cyber defences can react immediately day and night.
鈥淐yber-attack responses that are autonomous are more powerful than automated responses. Automation puts the cyber response on autopilot. It鈥檚 like the web, email, and cloud defences are on cruise control 鈥� stopping the expected attacks,鈥� he explains.聽
鈥淲here companies gain better cyber protection is when we talk about autonomous cyber security 鈥� the ability to not just respond on autopilot but to react to unexpected kinks in the threat.聽
鈥淚t鈥檚 this deep machine learning, the ability to identify and stop threats that enter an organisation by email first and then web or cloud to form a multi-channel cyberattack, that saves the IT team from a time-consuming process of having to investigate minor alerts or false positives.鈥�
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Even in 2021, most cyber threats come in via email, meaning it鈥檚 important to have robust email security in place, along with strong web and cloud application security.聽
鈥淭hreats are permuting too – a threat that may first be identified in an email may subsequently appear through the web or cloud application channel,鈥� says Macnair.
鈥淭his is why every business now needs a solution that can effectively manage cross-channel attacks. If a business operating today doesn鈥檛 have an integrated solution that covers the whole piece 鈥� email, web, cloud鈥� then it is effectively leaving itself vulnerable.鈥�