Malware
Don’t let a malicious file or application lead to a wide-scale breach.
What Makes Combating Malware Challenging
While threat vectors come and go, malware remains a crucial asset attackers use to achieve their objectives.
Lack of Visibility
While good products are on the market to detect potential malware, they only work if they can see assets they intend to protect. Suppose a new computer or server doesn’t get the malware protection installed. You end up with unintended exposure. This happens more than anyone would like to think.
Time Delays
While attackers are known to remain in environments for weeks, if not months, before deploying their malware payload, once deployed, the threat can spread like wildfire. Without real-time access to data, the security team will always be chasing an active attack, attempting to limit the damage rather than stopping it from executing.
Unreliable Automation
Two aspects of automation make malware so effective. The attackers use automation to deploy malware, starting widespread campaigns with minimal investment. Without reliable automation, many security teams must use manual mitigation and remediation methods.
How to Defend Against Malware
A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to detect and prevent malware from causing business disruptions.
Endpoint
Protection
Attackers consistently target endpoints, where users interact with a computer regularly, to carry out their attacks. A solid endpoint protection product, such as EPP and EDR, is a must.
Email
Protection
Since most malware arrives via email, you must have an email product with built-in file filtering.
Network
Protection
99% of all attacks will traverse your network at some point. Network protection products like NDRs are great ways to detect command and control activity typically associated with malware.
Vulnerability
Management
While attackers love to have users do their dirty work for them, if they can find an unpatched asset or an application with a known vulnerability in your environment, they are more than happy to exploit it. To that end, you need effective vulnerability management to keep your systems and applications up to date.
Security
Analytics
While the abrasiveness of a malware attack is evident once an attacker deploys the payload, there are opportunities to detect potential signs of an impending malware attack when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities.
Automated
Response
With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. An automated response product like SOAR can distinguish between a localized malware issue and a widespread crippling attack.
How Stellar Cyber Can Help
Stellar Cyber delivers over 400 integrations out-of-the-box, including integrations to popular endpoint protection, Identity management, and CASB products you use. The choice of which of these products to use is up to you.
Stellar Cyber also provides network protection, security analytics, UEBA, and automated response capabilities to identify and mitigate insider threats across your IT and OT environments.
Key Features
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