
Here’s What Hackers Don’t Want You to Know
Did you know that in just a few years the economic impact of cybercrime is expected to reach $6 trillion? Cybercrime is expensive to everyone in involved to clean up and it can affect everyone. The old ways of handling information security have often left some key vulnerabilities thanks, in part, to lack of acknowledgment that humans aren’t robots. People are the weakest link in cybersecurity because they do things like use 123456 as a password, leave their computers logged in when they go home at the end of the day, and even click on links in phishing emails when they know they shouldn’t.
Because humans are, well, human, preventing hackers from getting into networks in the first place has proven to be an exercise in futility. The latest tool in fighting cybercrime is segmented networks. Instead of an exterior barrier only, segmented networks have a segmented barrier on the outside as well as multiple segmented barriers on the inside. The idea is to expect cybercriminals to breach the outer security layers but to limit the amount of damage they do once inside and also detect them more quickly but checking log traffic regularly. Learn more about network segmentation from this infographic!

