Digital transformation makes today’s businesses more productive and more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Security professionals know that breaches are inevitable. To be successful, companies must establish cyber-resilient endpoints. Where do you turn when legacy approaches fail? In a word: Automation. ...

A generally slow quarter reflects an overall lullin cybercrime, picking up where Q1 left off with cryptominers continuing to dominate, ransomware continuing to evolve through experimentation, and exploits making a small but significant comeback.

New developments in ransomware and cryptomining drove the market, as Q2 attacks generally showed more sophistication than their Q1 counterparts. The introduction of complex VPNFilter malware, which dropped multi-stage attacks on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting small office and consumer users, ...

Legacy antivirus solutions are built upon several outmoded technologies ranging from byte-matching to post execution behavioral analysis. Threat actors have adapted to these well-known cybersecurity measures and responded with increasingly sophisticated attacks. For example, using byte-matching to identify malware has been foiled by attackers implementing polymorphic, single-use, and fileless attacks. Post-execution behavioral analysis is too risky of an approach when modern ransomware may encrypt vital data before malicious activity is detecte ...

Traditional cybersecurity approaches suffer from two glaring weaknesses. First, they rely on the digital signatures of known malware in order to identify threats. This approach leaves systems vulnerable to new and non-catalogued malware. Second, they are reactive in nature, ascribing to the “it’s not a matter of if, but when” mentality and often responding to the damage caused by zero-day threats only after they execute. Guarding against known threats is important but in the modern threat, landscape organizations must also address the over 350, ...

In this Paper:

• SMBs face the same security and compliance requirements as enterprises, without the same level of resources.

• Legacy AV has significant shortcomings, including reliance on detect-respond instead of a prevent-first approach to security.

• BlackBerry Cylance is an AI platform that helps small businesses prevent, detect, and respond to threats

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