Gartner<\/a>, but new\ncollaboration tools present a growing risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cEnsuring that every new\ncollaboration tool is secure is a challenge for CIOs and CISOs,\u201d said South\nAfrican GECI representative Mike Bergen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says information security\nprofessionals are increasingly concerned about content-borne threats\npenetrating the network even with anti-virus and email scanning tools in place,\nand are looking to reduce the risk and costs involved in remediation once a\nthreat has actually reached the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hizkiev added that malware embedded\nin legitimate applications like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets has\ntraditionally been difficult to detect, particularly if the content is sent\nthrough known and approved email addresses or through cloud-based collaboration\nchannels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe challenge is compounded by the\ngrowing trend for attackers to hijack an inbox or spoof a partner or vendor\nemail address and send a mail that looks legitimate \u2013 with a known sender and\nrecord of prior correspondence, with an appropriate subject line, and possibly\neven in reply to an email sent by the victim \u2013 but which now contains malware\nin an attachment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing this threat demands a new\napproach to perimeter protection in which content is interrogated before being\ndelivered, with tools to proactively assess whether the application execution\nflow is in line with its original design, or if it runs with alien code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith this model, it does not matter\nif attackers develop new attack techniques; any content in a commonly-used\nbusiness application deemed suspicious will be quarantined,\u201d said Hizkiev.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
BitDam, an Israeli firm that now operates in South Africa, monitors content from a cloud-based platform, proactively stopping exploits contained in any type of attachment or URL by extracting the execution flow and eliminating risks with latency as low as 15 – 20 seconds. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, BitDam integrates with most commonly used collaboration channels via APIs and is designed for quick and easy deployment in the organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BitDam solution is \u2018attack agnostic\u2019 and detached from the attack world, focusing only on the performance of content, which allows it to detect any malicious payload \u2013 whether known or unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BitDam, found to have the highest\ndetection rate of any solution, is being implemented both on top of existing\nsolutions \u2013 where it integrates seamlessly with existing security\ninfrastructure \u2013 or as a complete solution during an enterprise digitisation or\ncloud move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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