Micro-Breaches
In a recent article, TechRadar recommended that companies set aside 8-10% of their budgets for cyber security. Their reasoning for this was the increase in micro-breaches. These types of attacks may seem small given the name, but they can be a much greater threat.
What Is A Micro-Breach?
These types of attacks can be though of similar to a Trojan Horse or a crack in a dam. They are small breaches that often show no signs of threats and may even go undetected, but can quickly lead to the whole network coming under attack.
These attacks take aim at what is often the weakest point of an organization: the end users. They seek to use lack of education or carelessness to glean the information on a user and gain access to their emails and potentially other accounts. From there, it could be months before this breach reveals itself as the attacker may lie in wait, learning about the operations of the organization before they attempt a move.
These breaches seek to reach their ultimate goal through a small breach of just one user to gain access to finances or the network, so while they start out micro, they can turn into a major problem.
Prevention of Micro-Breaches
Since these attacks often focus on the end user, one of the most effective ways of preventing such a breach is through organizational IT policies as well as user training. Education is paramount to making sure that no user falls into a trap that could otherwise have been avoided. Keeping user up to date on the latest trends in these attacks can also assist in negating attempts.
The other major way is setting up organizational policies. These can be things like no user clicks on a link in an email, everyone must use MFA or it could go so far as to not allow devices that are not organization-owned and do not feature the organizations security feature to connect to the network.
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