Security News > 2021 > April > Effective Security Needs to See and Interrupt Every Step in an Attack Chain
Networks are under attack or they are not, cybercriminals are targeting a network or they aren't, and security tools either see and stop threats or they miss them.
To break an attack sequence, security solutions need to detect and rapidly adjust their security posture to effectively stop threats, even zero-day attacks, that are still in progress.
An effective security strategy needs to be able to see and interrupt every step in an attack chain, and do so in time to thwart an attack.
The challenge with most security strategies is, first, they are only able to recognize and respond to a handful of the steps in an attack chain because solutions either operate in isolation or only have access to a limited data set.
Of course, such a security platform needs to be able to be deployed broadly-to every network edge and device.
Enabling effective and comprehensive automation is the ultimate objective of any security platform, and it is especially critical when dealing with expanding networks and overburdened security teams.