The way that we work has changed dramatically over the past few years, but security hasn’t. Today, knowledge workers spend most of their time in web browsers accessing business-critical applications, communicating and collaborating, and ensuring the business moves at the speed its required to. Thanks to this productivity tool, they’re increasingly doing work outside of the confines of an office. Yet current web security technology was built for a time when remote work was rare, and the web browser consisted of a simple interface for browsing websites. The detection-based network and endpoint security tools many organizations rely on, such as Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), firewalls and sandboxes, were initially intended to protect networks and endpoints, and they’re now failing to meet the demands of modern work. Largely unknown in the cybersecurity industry and unprotected against, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT) were built specifically to compromise the shortcomings of traditional security tools — and that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.
In this ebook, we’ll be diving into how attackers leverage HEAT characteristics to slip past traditional security tools undetected and gain free reign over the network.
