Shields Up! Protecting browsers, endpoints and enterprises against web-based attacks
✍ Scribed by Nick Lowe
- Book ID
- 104392739
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 2009
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-4858
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✦ Synopsis
SHIELDS UP
Shields Up! Protecting browsers, endpoints and enterprises against web-based attacks
After the Norman conquest of Britain, the new administrative centres and power bases of the country were quickly strengthened against attack. Hilltop fortifications were remade as imposing stone castles, with multiple layers of security built in. These protected the newly centralised trade and business operations against theft and external attacks, and controlled third party access, rather like the perimeter defences, intrusion protection systems and VPNs of a typical company's network.
And if important figures left the protection of the castle, they would not only wear body armour, but also carry a shield for additional, mobile defence against all types of weapon. But do corporate endpoints -laptop computers and smartphones -have the same level of protection?
Unfortunately, it seems that unlike their medieval counterparts, modern mobile workers are no longer adequately prepared for attacks when they are away from the relative safety of the corporate citadel.
Why is this? Attack methods are changing, and the dominant threat to endpoint security now combines historically effective attacks with newer, more elusive methods of delivery and infection. As a result, attacks are extremely difficult to stop, and more serious in consequence than previous exploits.
New web-based attacks have emerged and are becoming more common. And