Over the last decade, our world’s digital landscape has evolved tremendously, allowing for real-time, borderless exchange of information and communication. The technology being created is pervasive and has become an integral part of our daily activities. With so many potential threats, it’s vital that we understand what cybersecurity is, the solutions available, and how to create a strong security framework for mitigating risks and keeping us safe.

Cyberattacks can be deployed singularly or in combination for multiple reasons and carry varying degrees of damage severity. There are typically three main motivational categories of cyberthreats.
CyberEspionage | CyberWarfare | CyberTerrorism

While cyberattackers leverage their security-penetration skills, they rely mostly on human error. Simple oversights or minor blunders made by users can cause huge repercussions if it unleashes a cyberattack that quickly spreads to other endpoints. This means that everyone, not just the IT department, needs to understand how important cybersecurity is. Typically, cyberattackers don't require sophisticated hacking skills to penetrate corporate networks. They simply need to learn how to trick employees into opening unsecure email attachments and links. Thus, employees become major targets for cybercriminals since they are postured as the gateway into an organization's network.

Building security into the vision and values of the company is an important first step to getting employees on board. Businesses must also deploy technologies that support rather than inconvenience employees. This will motivate them to make smarter decisions regarding computer and cyber safety instead of searching for easy, but potentially harmful, work-arounds.

Cybersecurity solutions work in layers to create a strong defense posture against potential risks. Therefore, these solutions need to be able to integrate and communicate with each other to have full end-to-end visibility into the threat landscape.In non-integrated environments, threats can find the weakest link and instantly penetrate, spreading through the rest of the system. And, because these non-integrated environments fail to have common tools, management, and policy control, finding the threat before it infects other parts of the system is also problematic.

StraightArc has adopted an open architectural approach to cybersecurity, providing varying degrees of pre-integrated solutions to meet the needs of customers.