War Of The Future

As we security analysts begin to find new ways to shine a light on hacker activities so they will find new ways to avoid us. In the case of user agents, hackers have not only found ways to avoid us, but to turn the tables on us as we search through user agent logs.

Your best adversary is well trained, possibly well funded and has time on their side. Your best defense is knowledge. Signature based defenses are cold war technology. We are fighting a modern war, where the enemy can create specific smart weapons targeted specifically at your organization. (E.g. Duqu and Stuxnet) The advanced persistent threat has shown that reliance on signature based detection and defenses are flawed.

It is fine for conventional attacks, but we have to think beyond signatures if we are to detect and defeat the enemy in the battlefields of the future.

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