Digital transformation has accelerated and zero-trust architecture has helped businesses invest in more advanced technologies without the risk of advanced cyberattacks. According to WatchGuard’s Pulse survey of 100 IT and security executives, a zero-trust framework stimulates digital transformation for companies, as stated by 6 out of 10 respondents (59%).

A company can accumulate massive amounts of information that security analysts are not able to monitor instantly. This can mean that priority security alerts either go unnoticed or are considered a false alarm because the appropriate technology is not available, which results in organizations failing to take action in time.

Today’s threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Attackers are constantly adjusting their tactics and finding new ways to infiltrate organizations with increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal valuable data. As such, businesses and IT professionals must remain up to date on the industry’s latest threat intelligence in order to better understand the current state of this cybersecurity landscape and know their enemies to shore up defenses.

The migration of assets to the Cloud has been the common denominator in company business strategies over the last two years, coupled with the rising number of incidents involving the theft of sensitive information and user passwords on Cloud platforms. According to the Verizon Data Breach Report 2021, in 2020 29,207 real-time security incidents were detected, out of which 5,258 were confirmed data breaches.

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced further actions to disrupt Cyclops Blink, a sophisticated state-sponsored botnet that affected network devices from multiple vendors, including a limited number (less than 1%) of WatchGuard firewall appliances.