Cybersecurity is constantly evolving, so cybercrime's scope and consequences have grown significantly over time. Cybersecurity is a concern in the workplace and at the highest levels of government given the rise of ransomware.
With defined supply chains and markets, the cybercrime business has undergone a major shift or one that is more professional and industrialized. According to HP's senior malware expert Alex Holland, cybercrime has grown to be a significant industry. On contrary, as per HP's study, the dark web is encouraging cybercriminals to cooperate, exchange goods, support one another's operations, and even profit from them.
Maintaining its staff throughout the epidemic and after it, with the advent of hybrid work, has been one of the urgent concerns in this transforming landscape, as far as firms are concerned. "That's generated a lot of issues for organizations because they need to set up their devices remotely, manage their devices remotely, and we realize that endpoint visibility - in terms of security and identifying threats - has been a concern for the enterprise. Enterprises must also be able to defend against and recover from such attacks, should the worst happen," Holland adds.
Additionally, there is a significant risk for organizations because of the blurring of the barriers between an employee's personal and professional lives. 71% of employees, as per research HP published in May, claim they use computers at home more frequently and to access more company data. Office workers are also increasingly utilizing their work devices for personal tasks, in fact, 70% of them admit to doing so, such as checking their emails.
"We notice that utilizing work devices—especially for risky tasks like opening webmail. Email is effectively a direct line into the organization, as we continually observe from the data we examine in my team. Once an endpoint has been taken over, an attacker is free to move about or do a lot of harm," Holland claims.
By incorporating security into hardware, which is reinforced by the Endpoint Security Controller hardware chip, Holland claims HP wants to combat these threats. This secure-by-design strategy depends on a solid framework and system integrity verification. The maker offers a wide range of security systems, including firmware security, memory virus detection, and isolating dangerous tasks.
HP offers services to provide a firm's desired security configuration right off the manufacturing line, which is the opposite side of the issue when it comes to configuring devices before they are dispatched to employees.
