Security News > 2021 > May > Attackers Use Obscurity, Enterprises Should Too
Let's consider the benefits of concealing network infrastructure and activity from the outside world to reduce the enterprise attack surface.
Network privacy is a new and often overlooked concept that can enable an organization to protect its identity, intellectual property, corporate information and customer data while conducting business over the Internet.
This approach provides an additional layer of protection that significantly complicates the ability of attackers to identify and attack resources, and breach the network.
Anyone using the Internet exposes their IP addresses and network identities, which exposes the organization to attack.
Security through obscurity at the network layer can be achieved by transparently distributing communications within and across multiple clouds using Software-Defined Network virtualization and dynamically shifting communications across multiple commercial providers.
Gordon Lawson is CEO of NetAbstraction, a company that specializes in network privacy, non-attribution and obfuscation for enterprises worldwide.