Cybersecurity provider says most agencies have already been attacked

“A new survey gauging the vulnerability of companies to cyberattack shows that most believe some sort of attack is inevitable.

Cybersecurity provider Solera Networks has recently completed a network forensics survey that looks at what a lot of companies have done, and are in the process of doing, to head off cyberattacks.”

Listen to the interview with Chris Dorobek of Federal News Radio.

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Digital forensics focuses on acquiring access to static storage media, like a hard drive, network storage drive, CD, flash drive, computer memory, etc., and then interrogating it to uncover evidence of activity by a user. Digital forensics focuses on data-at-rest. What’s missing is the communication that may have traveled across the network, the transient data that may not find a static resting place. Network forensics focuses on interrogating data-in-motion. Listen to Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks, shed light on how network forensics becomes a powerful tool to be prepared for the unknowns.

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Your network security tools will fail. We shouldn’t be surprised that the tools we seem to rely on to protect our digital assets will fail at some point. They don’t have the capability to recognize the “unknowns,” nothing can.

As we annually spend billions in security tools, it’s easy to feel let down. We need to start accepting failure and plan for quick detection, mitigation and recovery from an unexpected security event.

Alan Hall, Solera Networks Marketing Director, elaborates on why we need to change our thinking towards network security tools in this podcast.

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