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ELIMINATING THE
BLIND SPOT
CISOs and their teams face increasing pressure to manage
the sophisticated new cyberthreats that are constantly
emerging, with visibility a crucial part of staying one step
ahead. Hesham Elsherif, Principal System Engineer at
A10 Networks, tells us how the company’s A10 Networks’
Thunder SSLi product can be seamlessly deployed to
bolster an organisation’s cybersecurity defence and
critically eliminate the blind spot.
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How would you describe the overall
threat landscape?
Day after day, cyberattacks and threats
are increasing in complexity and in volume,
which represent a daily challenge for
executives to block and disarm these threats.
Infrastructure needs to be adapted to
accommodate the rapid growth and new
user behaviour to ensure safe communication
and to eliminate security threats.
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In 2019, according to Ponemon Institute
and IBM Securities, US$3.92 million is the
average cost of a data breach and US$150
is the average cost per record lost.
There has been a 650% increase in trojan-
based malware threats and a 195% increase
in ransomware in Q1 2019 according to the
HIPAA Journal. A total 90% of breaches
were caused by phishing as per a Retruster
report. And almost 50% of cyberattacks use
encryption to evade security, as 94% of all
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INFRASTRUCTURE
NEEDS TO BE
ADAPTED TO
ACCOMMODATE
THE RAPID
GROWTH AND NEW
USER BEHAVIOUR
TO ENSURE SAFE
COMMUNICATION
AND TO ELIMINATE
SECURITY
THREATS.
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