Security Communication Vol.2
Tips for Countering Advanced Targeted Attacks
June 10, 2020
Macnica /Security information that's good to know!
Here, we would like to introduce you to useful articles picked up from the "Featured Articles" section of our website!
- Email Security -Trends and Trends of Cyberattacks in 2019-
- Measures to prevent lateral movement (expansion of intrusion) of internal networks
1. Email Security - Latest Trends and Trends in FireEye Research
Many cyber crimes are said to start with emails. Although companies have introduced email security products and are taking countermeasures, attackers are still trying to infiltrate their systems using all possible means.
In order to take the best countermeasures, you first need to know your enemy. In this article, in order to reconsider email security measures, based on FireEye's report "Email Threat Report: What the Statistics of the First Quarter of 2019 Revealed", we will examine the increase in email attack methods in 2019 and We will introduce the trends of each method.
2. Protection from internal network lateral movement
Attackers using lateral movement techniques exploit low-privileged starting points such as web servers, email accounts, and employee devices to infiltrate networks and exploit financial data, intellectual property, and personal identities. Targets information (PII) and other sensitive information.
Once they establish initial access, they then move within the internal network to access critical organizational assets or targeted data and attempt to exfiltrate the data. In this article, we will introduce best practices to prevent such lateral movement.