IDG Contributor Network: Traditional security is dead -- why cognitive-based security will matter
There are more reports of security breaches/hacking taking place each day. From traditional viruses to “ransomware” to malicious web sites, the amount and severity of threats, and the ease with which these malevolent threats are created, grows unabated. With increasing sophistication of threat actors, the number and severity of attacks is increasing, and the number being prevented is decreasing.
To protect against a changing threat landscape, we need to look at security in a new way, especially if we are to protect corporate data from loss.
Maximizing enterprise data security requires a series of actions, increasingly difficult but increasingly necessary. Detection is the process that has been around the longest and which most organizations concentrate on by deploying anti-virus and similar on-client apps. But it’s really just a first step and should not be an end by itself.
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