Cybereason is deployed on 1 million endpoints globally, giving our security researchers ample data to delve into and determine what threats companies are facing. After reviewing endpoint data from the last six months, we've identified five emerging threats that companies can't avoid. Some of them, like ransomware and advanced persistent threats, are probably already known to security analysts. However, in the first half of this year we've seen a major increase in attackers using these threats. Ransomware in particular is a major concern to our customers, which is why we've added ransomware detection and blocking to Cybereason.
Other threats, like the increase of attacks targeting Mac OS X and fileless malware attacks, may not be on the radars of security professionals. There's a perception that OS X is immune to threats, but Apple's increasing market share gives hackers an incentive to attack Macs. Meanwhile, traditional security programs don't detect fileless malware attacks since these threats use tools built-in to an OS, like Windows Management Instrumentation, against the computer. With hackers becoming increasingly savvy in how they infiltrate a company, behavioral analysis and machine learning can help organizations detect these attacks.
Israel Barak is Cybereason's CISO.