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“ We tackle alert fatigue very successfully with the help of partners like Palo Alto and others , fighting automated attacks with our own machine learning defenses : our team here at Presidio that has built a first class offering and a first class vSOC service ”
DAVE TRADER VICE PRESIDENT AND FIELD CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER ( CISO ), PRESIDIO
what used to be called BYOD has morphed into MDM , or mobile device management . This enables IT departments to secure , monitor , and manage end-user mobile devices from smartphones , tablets , laptops , and even IoT devices . “ Nevertheless , I ' d say that 70 % of companies are not doing validation on their employees ' devices ahead of time , so these systems may not have antivirus and we are seeing compromised systems being allowed into enterprises ,” cautions Trader . “ Hacking organizations are aware of this and I have seen them purposefully seeking out these back doors to the enterprise networks . I have also seen an uptick since November 2020 of hacking organizations doubling down on ransomware in almost every vertical .”
Prevention better than cure The problem is very serious : Trader is getting around four calls a week from
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