Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019

(Sean Pound) #1

So many IT security professionals would agree that there is the old good rule saying that the cyber breach
cannot be prevented and it can only get accepted. We would partially agree with this suggestion because
we believe that with the continuing technological evolution, we would get at the stage when many of those
would get possible. At this moment, there are some tools for the breach diagnostics, management and
response on the marketplace, but they would mainly serve to recognize the threat and they would mostly
work in much more reactive manner. So, the question here is what the future time would bring to us. The
answer to this remark is quite simple. There will be the huge need to work hard on a development of the
strong encryption as well as the protection walls that could reflect any attempt of the malicious actors to
access our IT resources and take control over them. At this level, it’s only the matter of time when our
marketplaces would offer those advancements to their consumers and we hope that epoch would come
so soon.


What is the cyber breach?


As it’s well-known, so many critical assets would count on the best practice in terms of cryptography and
the other alternative data protection methods. It’s quite complicated and expensive to develop the
multilevel cryptography and its purpose in security and privacy could get assumed as the quite effective
one. So many research institutes, academic organizations and defense communities would invest a lot
of time, effort and funds in order to produce the best possible encryption algorithms that would not be
that time consuming at least. If we speak about the multilevel encryption, we would realize that such a
project could get so demanding in so many different cases. For instance, the strategic and defense
centers worldwide would develop the specific interest to deal with such an initiative and they may get
ready to give a lot in order to get back something that would leave them at least a step ahead of the
security risks, threats and challenges. The good example from the practice could be the deep web
protection model for a reason it could be the pretty suitable way to prevent some kinds of the breaches.


In the literature, there would be mentioned the convenient story about the cryptographers trying to hide
the coin in the restaurant using the menu as a protection wall. That case would inspire so many
researchers, scientists and engineers to create the deep internet that would apply the several layers of
protection mainly being encrypted which would provide us the chance to count on the better security,
privacy and anonymity for a reason the signal going through those layers could get in the plaintext form
or fully transformed using some sort of cryptographic algorithm. Above all, there would be the great need
to count on the strong encryption that would not seek from us to deal with any sort of the cryptographic
key. In the past, the cryptographic algorithm that would not need the encryption key would get recognized
as the perfect secrecy and many would believe that got the silver bullet to all our security troubles. It’s
quite obvious that the time would dement us and nowadays we would deal with the strong encryption that
could also get breakable, but it can take time to accomplish the cryptanalysis of such a protection model.


The ways to prevent any IT breach


It would appear that the cyber breaches are feasible in any surroundings. The fact is we would never stay
absolutely safe for a reason the modern cyber defense is only about the good risk management. For
instance, the breach is possible even in the peer-to-peer communications and there is the huge risk within
the Internet of Things devices being the part of some bigger network to get accessed and exploited by
the hacking groups. So, the risk is very huge and the threats are very hyperactive! Would that be the
challenge for a tomorrow? Practically, yes! Apparently, there is the strong need to search for the new
technological and mathematical solutions that would offer us the chance to make some changes to our
current advancements. At this stage, it’s not possible to prevent any breach at all, but in the future if we

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