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Follow on Google News | Hackers adopt 'school of fish' approach as they sharpen focus on mid-sized businessesNew data underscores risk facing businesses as attackers side-step traditional security prevention technology
By: eSentire Reports demonstrate a marked technique shift by attackers who favor obfuscation techniques that evade standard perimeter controls. The data, collected from eSentire's best-in-class threat monitoring technologies, spans thousands of private and public cloud sources across the company's 600+ client base, and includes primarily mid-sized businesses in the finance, legal, healthcare, technology, and insurance industries. "It's not that businesses don't need prevention technologies, rather, you need to be able to detect when those technologies are being bypassed and intervene immediately," In its 2017 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services (https://www.gartner.com/ "Last year's monster breaches, like WannaCry, affected countless mid-sized businesses, and since those attacks, we've seen a steady rise in organizations proactively seeking measures to safe-guard against similar attacks," said Haynes. "Mid-sized enterprises have similar cyber risk profiles to large enterprises, yet a fraction of the budget to invest in detection and responses capabilities." MDR is the fastest growing segment in cybersecurity as firms of all sizes struggle to acquire and retain the threat hunting skills, advanced cyber technologies, and threat intelligence processes to continuously anticipate the next move the 'school of fish' is making. "This new data supports an existential problem when it comes to defending against threats," said Haynes. "Early breach indicators are measured in minutes and hours, and countermeasures need to be deployed in near real-time. In our world, it is not the 200+ days to detect which you read in the headlines, it's now!" As the largest pure-play MDR provider, eSentire saw significant market expansion in 2017, with in excess of 60% year-over-year revenue growth. Today, the company maintains a 97% customer retention rate. "At the end of the day, while the volume of attacks continues to rise, combining endpoint, network, and threat intelligence data equips eSentire's threat hunters with the richest possible data allowing faster decision making, investigations, and the ability to disrupt attacks," said Haynes. "Ultimately, businesses need to avoid greater financial losses and need more than traditional prevention technologies to achieve that." About eSentire: eSentire® (http://www.esentire.com) is the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service provider (https://www.esentire.com/ 1Gartner, Managed Detection and Response Services Market Guide, Toby Bussa, Kelly M. Kavanagh, Craig Lawson, and Sid Deshpande, May 2017. Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Products, service names, and company logos mentioned herein may be the registered trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved. PR Contacts: Angela Tuzzo MRB Public Relations for eSentire +1 732.758.1100, x. 105 atuzzo@mrb-pr.com Mandy Bachus eSentire Corporate Communications +1 226.338.7135 mandy.bachus@ End
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