cyber trends
A NEW REPORT HAS HIGHLIGHTED
THE IMPORTANCE IN SHARING
INFORMATION TO BOLSTER DEFENCES
AGAINST CYBERTHREATS. THE LATEST
FINDINGS, FROM AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES,
OUTLINES HOW THIS APPROACH IS
HAVING AN IMPACT.
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kamai
Technologies,
a leading cloud
delivery platform,
announced
the availability
of the State of
the Internet/Security: Carrier Insights
Report for Spring 2018, which shows
that sharing information is an important
factor in helping to defend against
cyberthreats. The report analyses
data from more than 14 trillion DNS
queries collected by Akamai between
September 2017 and February 2018
from communications service provider
(CSP) networks around the world.
For more than 19 years, Nominum –
acquired by Akamai in 2017 – has
leveraged in-depth DNS data to improve
overall protection against sophisticated
cyberattacks such as distributed denial
of service (DDoS), ransomware, Trojans
and botnets.
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Akamai report shows
information sharing
is an important
cyberthreat defence
Akamai’s Carrier Insight Report builds
upon the Nominum expertise and
highlights the effectiveness of DNS-
based security that is enriched with
data coming from other security layers.
This layered security approach
involves gathering various security
solutions to collectively protect an
organisation’s data.
“Siloed understanding of attacks
against individual systems isn’t enough
for defenders to prepare for today’s
complicated threat landscape,” said
Yuriy Yuzifovich, Director of Data
Science, Threat Intelligence, Akamai.
“Communicating with varying
platforms is critical when acquiring
knowledge across teams, systems and
data sets. We believe that the DNS
queries that our service provides act
as a strategic component to arming
security teams with the proper data
necessary for that big picture view of
the threat landscape.”
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