Emerging technologies continue to change the world around us. How can we innovate to leverage these technological advancements for good, within a robust defense strategy against cybercriminals who use these technologies to disrupt and profit?
As radical innovation in technology has transformed our lives and world economies permanently, a new and more profitable business model has also opened up for cybercriminals. We’ve all received an email from a trusted brand, informing us they’ve experienced a breach and to please change your password. Increasingly, we hear of relatives and friends who were made to believe someone they loved was in danger and sent them money, only to later find out it’s a scam. Most aspects of our lives are touched by technological enablement, making us highly vulnerable to cyber disruption, attacks, misrepresentation, and disinformation, personally and professionally.
That dynamic has forged a relationship between cybersecurity and innovation. It is not enough to solve for today’s complex cyber problems. At Secureworks, they’re looking around corners to predict the next horizon of technological innovation, anticipate how threat actors could exploit it, and secure it ahead of the curve. Today it’s cloud and AI. Tomorrow it’s augmented reality and quantum computing.
“As we’ve built our business, the drive to change the economics of cybercrime has meant that we’ve encouraged and nurtured an entrepreneurial mindset to securing new technologies,” said Wendy Thomas, Secureworks CEO. “Our focus is on ensuring customers benefit from the power of SaaS, AI, and automation by embedding them into their workflows. This empowers them to harness innovative technology and techniques for cyber defense and scale their scarce teams while positively impacting their cybersecurity maturity.”
These innovations also require companies like Secureworks to be mindful of potential risks. In order to use new technology to advance their own industries, organizations must first trust that the technology is safe, and that keeping it safe won’t slow them down. Experimenting and testing these technologies enable Secureworks to understand their capabilities and their limitations within a contained environment.
To ensure that Secureworks is partnering with their customers to reduce their cyber risk, they’ve been focusing on:
- AI-Powered Threat Detection
You can’t protect against what you can’t see or anticipate. AI and machine learning have been embedded in the Secureworks Taegis™ threat detection and response platform since the beginning. For example, Secureworks uses machine learning algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data, identifying patterns and anomalies to predict and detect threats. - Rapid Threat Response through Automation
When a threat is detected, time is of the essence. Protecting against an attack before damage can be done is at the heart of Secureworks’ many product innovations. By automating responsive protections, the Taegis platform shuts down threats to prevent breaches, data exfiltration, and ransomware deployment. - Threat Intelligence Insights
A critical component of moving faster than cybercriminals is understanding how they operate to anticipate and thwart their next steps. Secureworks monitors hundreds of threat groups, collecting data from various sources, including dark web forums, malware samples, helping organizations recover from breach incidents, and more. These insights are fed back into the Taegis platform continuously, so that its defenses are constantly adapting to the changing threat landscape.
Cybersecurity is more than protecting individual organizations from attacks—it’s protecting the ability of our critical industries and economies to operate without disruption. From Georgia to the U.S. and beyond, the communities we call home are the backbone to fostering growth in all industries. Secureworks’ mission statement is to secure human progress by outpacing and outmaneuvering the adversary. They accomplish that by making innovation part of their DNA, in this most important fight.
