Collaboration for end-to-end secure content

Digital content informs and facilitates every single aspect of business. We create and consume this content in innumerable ways, from our dependency on email to receive and send critical information and documents, to job application portals and shared storage services in the cloud. 

Therefore, it’s little wonder that digital content has become such a popular vehicle for cyber criminals for both getting threats into and information out of an organisation. Criminals are increasingly pursuing sophisticated techniques to infect content, including the use of zero-day and undetectable threats. Just this month, researchers discovered a new malware infiltration technique being used in the wild that allows attackers to trigger payloads when victims preview documents.

Similarly, once in the organisation, cyber criminals are also using content as a means of exfiltrating information. Indeed, Deep Secure researchers have demonstrated that attackers could use commands delivered over Twitter to steal more than 300,000 credit card details by concealing them into just 50 images – all while completely avoiding detection. The risk posed by content is presented at every turn and nowhere more so than with corporate access to the Internet via Web browsing and social media.

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Achieving end-to-end defences

Whether an employee, a supply chain partner or a customer, every stakeholder in a business needs to know that the content they are engaging with is digitally pure and threat-free. However, security teams have a tough job keeping pace with a dynamic and highly developed threat landscape, and with cyber criminals who innovate faster than most Fortune 500 companies.

Traditional network defence solutions are no match for threats concealed in content – whether achieved through steganograph