Intelligent CISO Issue 03 | Page 18

cyber trends A NEW REPORT HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE IN SHARING INFORMATION TO BOLSTER DEFENCES AGAINST CYBERTHREATS. THE LATEST FINDINGS, FROM AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, OUTLINES HOW THIS APPROACH IS HAVING AN IMPACT. A kamai Technologies, a leading cloud delivery platform, announced the availability of the State of the Internet/Security: Carrier Insights Report for Spring 2018, which shows that sharing information is an important factor in helping to defend against cyberthreats. The report analyses data from more than 14 trillion DNS queries collected by Akamai between September 2017 and February 2018 from communications service provider (CSP) networks around the world. For more than 19 years, Nominum – acquired by Akamai in 2017 – has leveraged in-depth DNS data to improve overall protection against sophisticated cyberattacks such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), ransomware, Trojans and botnets. 18 Akamai report shows information sharing is an important cyberthreat defence Akamai’s Carrier Insight Report builds upon the Nominum expertise and highlights the effectiveness of DNS- based security that is enriched with data coming from other security layers. This layered security approach involves gathering various security solutions to collectively protect an organisation’s data. “Siloed understanding of attacks against individual systems isn’t enough for defenders to prepare for today’s complicated threat landscape,” said Yuriy Yuzifovich, Director of Data Science, Threat Intelligence, Akamai. “Communicating with varying platforms is critical when acquiring knowledge across teams, systems and data sets. We believe that the DNS queries that our service provides act as a strategic component to arming security teams with the proper data necessary for that big picture view of the threat landscape.” Issue 03 | www.intelligentciso.com