Cyberattack

In today’s digital age, cyberattacks pose a significant threat to organisations of all sizes. In this article, you’ll gain a clear understanding of what cyberattacks are, explore common types and discover practical strategies for preventing them.

Table of Contents

• What is a cyberattack?
• How to prevent cyberattacks

What is a cyberattack?

A cyberattack is any attempt by nefarious individuals to target an organisation’s IT infrastructure, networks, systems, or devices to either steal, expose, or destroy information or assets. When carried out successfully, cyberattacks impact your business in more ways than one. From increasing the likelihood of a future cyberattack to putting your organisation in legal jeopardy, cyberattacks have the ability to inflict serious harm across your organisation if left unchecked.

Some of the more common types of cyberattacks include:

• denial-of-service (DoS)
• man-in-the-middle (MITM)
• business email compromise (BEC)
• phishing
• spear phishing
• ransomware
• and DNS spoofing.

In order to prevent cyberattacks, it’s important to educate your staff on cybersecurity best practices. Utilizing AI-based cybersecurity solutions can also enhance your security posture and make it easier to detect and neutralize threats before they cause damage.

How to prevent cyberattacks

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Using 10,000+ heuristic algorithms with eight levels of analysis, our solutions scans billions of emails across the globe every day to detect known and unknown threats such as zero-day malware, ransomware variants, and even sophisticated social engineering attacks embedded in phishing emails. This global analysis is then combined with local and behavioral analysis to study organizational and individual styles and behavior and thereby identify suspicious patterns.