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| Kaspersky expects strong digital vulnerability in the region in the coming years |
Kaspersky's intelligence and threat landscape forecasts up to 2023 show that regions in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa will continue to be targets for increased cybercrime activity.
Today's hyper-connected world requires a rethinking of the approach to digital security. For this reason, Kaspersky has spent years developing a “cyber-immunity” methodology that enables manufacturers to produce technology products that have intrinsic immunity and benefit from enhanced protection. Digital threats that make the digital world more secure and resilient.
Today, Kaspersky's "digital immunity" approach has become the new standard in digital security, and the company has confirmed that it will continue to work on strategic technology partnerships based on this approach.
Kaspersky Security Network data shows that between January and September 2022 last year, a third of users in the MENA region were affected by both web and non-web threats. Kaspersky also reported an increase in the number of persistent and sophisticated attacks on different countries in the region in 2022.
Andrei Suvorov, Head of Kaspersky Business Unit (KasperskyOS), said that the significant and continuous growth in the number of devices connected to the Internet attracts more and more attention from cybercriminals, highlighting the activity ring, in which Kaspersky experts have more than 900 malicious devices. The groups have detected and continued advanced threat activity over the past year. , indicating that the year 2023 "will witness increasing digital security challenges."
“Digital threats can cause physical damage to industrial facilities, power plants, cars and smart city systems, which is why we strongly believe that a digital immunity approach is required to ensure an effective defense,” Suvorov added.
Digital immunity can be defined as the inherent ability of IT systems to resist digital attacks without the need for additional security tools. Digital immunity prevents most types of attacks on the system from affecting its vital functions, and its importance is becoming increasingly important in industries where information technology systems require security, reliability, and high predictive capabilities, such as manufacturing, energy, transportation infrastructure, and smart city systems.
Suvorov, for example, stating that ransomware attacks are just information in the field of digital threats that pose an ongoing threat to businesses across the continent, stating that strengthening existing digital defenses with solutions based on digital vaccination approaches is "an important enabler for organizations". During".
The security expert pointed out that Kaspersky found that persistent advanced threats that can hide for months or years remain a dilemma for the brown continent.
“While ransomware is an immediate threat, advanced persistent threats are a long game, cybercriminals play slow and usually get the best results. Again, digital immunity can help mitigate these and other threats that should emerge in 2023.”
Kaspersky researchers expect new, large-scale, destructive digital attacks to occur this year. One possible cause of this pandemic is the massive exploitation of one or more vulnerabilities by one or more of the world's most sophisticated and powerful threat actors, especially as current global tensions have greatly increased the frequency of such attacks. chance.
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Kaspersky also anticipates devastating attacks on government departments and other vital sectors, some of which may not be easy to trace and appear as random events.
Suvorov stressed that there will be a large number of digital security incidents in 2022, and stressed that there is no room for error, especially as the digital threat landscape is changing further.
“Digital immunity means embedding the principles of ‘inherent protection’ into computer systems as they are designed and built, and our goal in 2023 and beyond will continue to be to build a more secure and resilient digital world together with Kaba’s digital immunity to extremists the new standard,” Suvorov said.
To meet current and future challenges, Kaspersky pioneered the digital immunity approach to creating secure technology solutions and developed its operating system (KasperskyOS) as a platform for creating products based on digital immunity.
The unique architecture of (KasperskyOS) enables the development of technology products that provide protection against most types of digital attacks. Solutions based on digital immunity (KasperskyOS) do not require the implementation of additional security functions and tools, since everything necessary is in the product.
Kaspersky currently offers a range of digital immunity products, including immunity gates to protect IoT infrastructures, low-performance computers and remote workplaces, and the company is also developing digital immunity gates for connected vehicles.
Suvorov concluded: “The development of KasperskyOS has been an exciting journey that required a lot of research and coding. It is not just an ordinary operating system, but a security-protected operating system rooted in its foundations and core. We achieved our goal of making the system compact and efficient, with the main goal of achieving Digital immunity with current solutions.