By: Lloyd Webb, Vice President of Sales Engineering, EMEA, SentinelOne
Generative AI has opened the door to a set of new and sophisticated threats to the enterprise. Adversaries use this technology to execute machine speed attacks with less downtime. Deepfakes are increasingly used to destabilize trust and organize scams. Phishing is becoming more and more sophisticated.
While attackers were once content to target vulnerable devices to access credentials, adversaries are now going beyond break-ins, using AI to tailor what people consume, and the ability to turn an employee into insider is more than ever at your fingertips.
Hackers have also figured out how to use AI to observe and predict how defenders will react to their malware evasion techniques and adjust them on the fly. And there is a proliferation of adaptive malware, polymorphic malware, and autonomous malware propagation.
All of this has made cyberspace an increasingly dangerous and difficult to defend environment. And there are no police to help. To protect themselves, businesses must think ahead and structure their technology to protect against new and emerging threats they may not yet understand.
A new era of security
Today, security is no longer limited to threat detection and prevention. It’s about gaining visibility and insight into data across the enterprise and turning that data into decisive actions to protect the business and mitigate risk. And to achieve this, organizations will need to think outside the box.
Many businesses rely on traditional point solutions to secure endpoints, networks, cloud assets and identities in isolation. The evolving nature of threats requires a more integrated strategy.
A more modern approach
As AI technologies bring new, more sophisticated threats to the enterprise every day, unified security is emerging as the central theme of enterprise cybersecurity in 2024. This progressive approach involves the seamless integration of various solutions and security technologies in a unified and coherent system.
The push toward unified security is driven by a quest for simplicity. Facing tight IT budgets and a critical shortage of cyber talent, organizations are seeking to reduce complexity, streamline security operations and reduce the risk of human error.
To effectively thwart the barrage of attacks they face, security teams must be able to see their data across every endpoint, every connection, and every transaction on every cloud. And to connect the dots, they must be able to connect all the dots. Point solutions make this difficult to achieve for several reasons. First, they focus on a narrow set of data sources or attack vectors. They also require multiple agents, alert queues, and investigation pages to piece together, which IT teams lack the time and talent to manage.
Unified platforms simplify security because they seamlessly ingest data from any source into a single console, allowing teams to see everything at once, in one place. And they provide the speed and visibility needed to centralize, process and convert this data, at scale, into actionable insights in real time. When this data is augmented with AI precision, a whole new realm of security can be opened up.
The power of AI
AI, in essence, gives businesses superpowers to secure a wider range of assets better than humans alone because they are not limited by the number of people in their security operations center or by the expertise of their team. Thanks to AI, they have an always-on super analyst who can see things in real time, at scale, and defend their environment against attacks at the speed of the machine they are executed with.
Harnessing AI in cybersecurity also opens up a new range of opportunities to address the cybersecurity skills gap. Using AI, security analysts can significantly reduce their investigation time to detect and respond to threats. The technology makes the heavy lifting of threat hunting easier, summarizing large amounts of data, and even giving suggestions on what and where to hunt next.
Ensure tomorrow
As the threat landscape continues to evolve, it is imperative that organizations are able to bring together data from across the enterprise and create a cohesive fabric to protect their business, regardless of the vector or attack. Unified platforms are the most efficient and cost-effective way to do this, and businesses that adopt them can securing the future of security today.
