COMPANIES TURN THE TABLES ON HACKERS WITH PROACTIVE CYBER SECURITY DEFENCES

  Companies are turning to more aggressive cyber security tactics to protect themselves against attackers. After a flourish of data breaches and cyber attacks against big global companies such as Fiat Chrysler and Target in 2015, traditional security strategies of building a virtual wall or perimeter around a network are increasingly being replaced with ‘proactive’ defence methods, which use technologies to detect and respond to breaches in progress. Real-time detection and response technologies, such as threat deception, diversion and trapping, have ...


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