Ransomware and Zero Trust series | Akamai

The surge in ransomware attacks poses a growing threat to both individuals and businesses. Like most malware, ransomware relies on lateral movement within the network to succeed. Many solutions that claim to protect against ransomware focus their efforts on the perimeter, which is fine until a breach inevitably occurs. Without a proper segmentation solution in place, the scope of the breach can be tremendous.

Akamai helps businesses remediate and protect against the effects of ransomware by visualizing all assets that are communicating in your environment, quickly implementing policy to limit communications with the infected assets, and securing ransomware recovery efforts.

Learn how you can cut the ransomware kill chain with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

As ransomware increasingly becomes a global cybersecurity scourge, affecting both public and private sectors, the urgency for effective defense strategies escalates. Identifying an active ransomware attack is essential, but it's only the beginning. The pivotal question we address is: How can you take the teeth out of a ransomware attack before it causes real damage to your organization?

This webinar unveils the power of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation that empowers security practitioners to prevent, respond to, and recover from an active ransomware attack. Under the guidance of our esteemed Solutions Expert, Milton Keath, you will discover how to swiftly and effectively reinforce your cyber defenses.

We will explore practical, easy-to-implement strategies that enable you to:
- Drastically reduce your organization’s attack surface with just a few intuitive clicks, setting up a robust defense against potential ransomware attacks.
- Respond adeptly to ransomware incidents as they arise in your IT environment, ensuring minimal disruption and maximal security.
- Efficiently recover and restore your systems post-attack, implementing measures to prevent future reinfection.

The concept of Zero Trust has revolutionized cybersecurity by challenging the traditional perimeter-based security model. However, its implementation, particularly regarding network segmentation, has often presented challenges due to its complexity and potential disruption to existing workflows.

This webinar proposes an innovative approach leveraging microsegmentation to overcome these hurdles and deliver a seamless Zero Trust implementation using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation solution.

-Divide networks into manageable segments without disrupting workflows.
-Achieve granular control based on user identity and application behaviour.
-Provide unparalleled visibility and threat response.
-Improve overall security posture with enhanced network security control.

Kubernetes (K8s) remains one of the most widely adopted technologies for deploying and managing applications in cloud-native data centers, offering a kind of speed and flexibility that was never before possible.

However, K8s has one major drawback – security. As the K8s cluster network is inherently flat, it allows communication between clusters and pods by default. Just like in traditional networks, upon initial breach, an attacker can move laterally and gain access to all connected data centers and execute the attack.

Microsegmentation is foundational when it comes to best practices to secure K8s clusters, including Microsoft AKS and Openshift. The solution seamlessly protects other workloads in your environment, from legacy systems, to virtualized and cloud instances.

In this webinar, learn how you can visualize and secure your containerized applications with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

Despite enterprises’ best efforts, cyber criminals continue to succeed in breaching and ransomware attacks by capitalizing on human error. And security controls like EDR/XDR continue to be insufficient in combating these attacks.

Join this session to learn about a novel approach to Defense in Depth model which includes microsegmentation to better protect your workloads, from legacy systems, to virtualized and cloud instances.

You will learn:

Common pitfalls of traditional endpoint security solutions
The novel Defense in Depth approach
Why microsegmentation needs to be prioritized over security controls like EDR/XDR, both modern and traditional