Secure Remote Worker Use Case 1: Ensure Fast, Secure Access to SaaS Platforms
Even before Covid-19 forced the adoption of work-from-home policies across the globe, the workforce had been getting more remote, more distributed, and more dependent on Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms. In turn, organizations have been looking for a new way to protect these remote users from today’s increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Phishing attacks remain one of the biggest threats as malicious attackers take advantage of the new normal to trick users into downloading malware or giving up their credentials.
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phishing,
ransomware,
anti-phishing,
SWG,
Secure Remote Worker,
Working From Home,
CASB,
cloud-delivered security,
Digital Workforce,
Remote Work
For most of us, working has always been social. We’d commute to an office every day where we’d spend our day in strategy meetings and whiteboard sessions, grab a coffee to catch up with colleagues, and catch the boss while walking the hall to provide the latest project update. Once in a while, if we had a personal appointment, a customer meeting across town, or an early-morning conference call from overseas, we’d be able to work from home, logging in from a VPN where we’d have secure access to productivity tools.
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phishing,
ransomware,
anti-phishing,
SWG,
Secure Remote Worker,
CASB,
Digital Workforce,
Remote Work
Menlo labs has observed limited attacks, where attackers are continuing to exploit CVE-2017-11882, an old Microsoft exploit with a patch that was issued more than two years ago. As a matter of fact, an FBI report published on May 12 2020, listed it as one of the top 10 vulnerabilities routinely getting exploited. We are still analyzing some details of the malware involved in the three attacks and will post it in part 2 of this series. The following are some noteworthy features in all the attacks we identified
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phishing,
ransomware,
anti-phishing,
SWG,
Secure Remote Worker,
Working From Home,
CASB,
cloud-delivered security,
Digital Workforce,
Remote Work
Manage Shadow IT and Stop Data Loss Through Cloud Apps
Cloud Apps Are a Point of Attack
Protecting workers is a challenging task—for example, 29 percent of all attacks leverage legitimate cloud services to launch an attack. Once an attacker is inside the network, they can use the same cloud app to siphon or exfiltrate valuable information out of the organization.
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Cloud DLP,
Application Control,
app security,
cloud app,
cloud applications,
Cloud App Isolation,
CASB,
Cloud Access Security Broker,
cloud application security,
casb isolation,
Isolation, Cloud-based Isolation,
cloud security,
DLP
