Threat detection

Automated Threat Detection Helps Fulfill Protection Goals Of Critical Security Controls

Modern attacks and techniques to avoid detection have grown increasingly sophisticated in recent years, making traditional security methods insufficient to fulfill goals defined within the Critical Security Controls (CSCs).

According to new research by the SANS Institute, organizations can better protect themselves from attacks by combining automated network threat detection tools with traditional perimeter security methods.

The SANS Institute’s whitepaper, The Expanding Role of Data Analytics in Threat Detection, sponsored by Vectra Networks, said organizations should consider a breach as inevitable. Modern attackers are able to bypass perimeter-based security defenses using techniques that allow them to get—and stay—in corporate networks until their mission in accomplished. In this increasingly complex threat environment, Critical Security Controls (CSCs) play a vital role in helping to mitigate modern attack profiles.

Developed through federal and community efforts coordinated by the SANS Institute, CSCs are a prioritized and highly focused set of security actions for defending and responding to modern cyber attacks.