Network Intrusion
The team sends some initial information to company headquarters without realizing that, unbeknown to them, a competitor is spying on this useful information with the help of a hacker who is reading the exploratory team’s e-mails. There are plenty of scenarios involving attacks on ICT systems, from industrial espionage to blackmail. According to the Kaspersky Global IT Security Risk Survey of 2013, 91 percent of all companies were attacked at least once in the last twelve months. That means that action needs to be taken. Network security lays the foundation for secure ICT.
Administrators are faced with the challenge of having to constantly adapt their network security systems to new threats. Deutsche Telekom’s honeypots alone record more than 800,000 attacks each day; a year ago it were “only” 450,000. And the number of malware programs is growing exponentially as well. Security-as-a-service, e.g., security solutions from the cloud, help improve network security and also help protect company ICT.