CoreTrace Tech Brief Sample

The IT threat landscape has passed a tipping point in recent years. Gone are the days when attacks were intended primarily to get attention with flagrant and noisy disruptions. Tangible gain and strategic advantage have become objectives of today’s more serious threats. To achieve these goals, stealth has become a primary modus operandi of the sophisticated attacker. Much more damage may be done by working quietly, rather than by noisily attracting the attention of defenders. The more sophisticated the threat, the higher the probability that serious attacks may go undetected—and undeterred—by traditional defenses.

This situation is further complicated by the fact that the sheer volume of attacks in today’s landscape threatens to overwhelm traditional signature-based defenses, whose databases necessarily impose limits on their effectiveness.