The document discusses the need for organizations to build a next-generation security infrastructure to combat continuous cyber attacks. It recommends that such an infrastructure should provide greater visibility of security events, integrate cyber defense into the enterprise environment, and leverage automation. It also advises organizations to rethink their focus on tools, build cross-functional teams, experiment with new technologies, and ensure alignment across business units to respond effectively to cyber threats.

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Continuous
Cyber Attacks:
Building the Next-Gen
Infrastructure for the
New Normal

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Digital infrastructure plays
a critical role in combatting
cyber attacks
What is an effective digital infrastructure?
How can it best be maintained?
How can leaders choose from among the
wide range of tools and technology
solutions available?
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A comprehensive view of digital
security integrates cyber defense
into the enterprise environment
A next-generation security infrastructure should:
• Provide greater information visibility, context and meaning
regarding security events.
• Give technical analysts the ability to understand the impact of
security events in relation to business operations.
• Offer flexible and open access to data and features.
• Drive much deeper integration levels as security infrastructures
quickly becomes completely defined by software.
• Leverage automation for faster response times and scalability.
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Create the self-defending
enterprise.
To deliver a quantum leap in
performance.
Focus attention on
technology maturity.
To promote security based on
business context.
Align threat intelligence with
the business environment.
To prepare defenses for what's
coming and hunt for what already
might be in the environment.
Implement deceptions
to trap intruders.
To enable higher fidelity detection of
adversaries, learn from their attacks
and limit damage.
Leverage automation.
To focus security staff on more
challenging issues.
Feed the analytics engines.
To identify subtle threats based on
shifting behaviors in networks and
devices.
Creating a next-generation
security infrastructure requires the
following actions
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Organizations should rethink their
focus on tools to extract the most
benefit from them
• Infrastructure siloes prevent organizations from
realizing the full potential from the tools and
technology deployed.
• Instead, orchestrate existing infrastructure
capabilities to disrupt attacks.
• Assess new tools with an eye to replacing
multiple older technologies with a single new one.
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Build a next-generation security
infrastructure to help achieve
operational excellence
• Experiment: Pilot new security technologies and automation
solutions, develop use cases and simulate sophisticated attacks.
• Create cross-functional teams: Instead of having separate
groups managing the network, the servers and security, organize
these experts so they can interact, collaborate and increase the
effectiveness of security automation.
• Team to develop talent: Help staff become specialists, while
ensuring that the business, infrastructure and security teams
know about all projects so they can benefit from each other’s
innovations.
• Raise security’s internal profile: Make sure the chief
information security officer’s level of influence over the
infrastructure is commensurate with that of the IT leader.
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Adopt a comprehensive view to
the organization’s infrastructure
security requirements
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Look beyond tools. Invest only in
technologies with
proven performance.
Ensure all business
units remain aligned
and are ready to
respond
to cyber attacks.

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