Intelligence is key in any business process, but perhaps among the most urgently necessary when it comes to protecting an organization and its data. And IntSights, which is fresh off a $1.8 million funding round that will help the Israel-based company expand in Europe and the U.S., is at the front lines of the battle.
In a conversation with PYMNTS, Alon Arvatz, the company’s chief operating officer, noted that cyberintelligence represents a “critical layer to prevent cyberattacks, as the information we find can drastically decrease the odds” of an attack occurring and finding the initial indications of an attack and their severity levels are among the most important pieces of the puzzle in short-circuiting hacker attacks. As Arvatz noted, “every cyberattack begins on the reconnaissance stage, when smart hackers plan their offensive” before ever mounting an effort to breach the perimeter of an enterprise’s network.
And hacking seems to be egalitarian, at least when it comes to the size of the enterprise under attack. Arvatz said that despite some research that points to smaller firms being more favored as hacking targets, IntSights’ experience has found that, as the firm witnesses hacking across certain types of technological maneuvering and across regions, “from our point of view, it’s obvious that big companies are marked as a specific target by hackers a lot more than small ones. There is more public interest in them, and therefore more people that are unsatisfied with their behavior.” For the full article click here
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