Most IT sec pros still rely on perimeter security to stop APTs

Posted on 27 October 2014. 78 percent of IT security professionals are confident that firewalls and antimalware tools are robust enough to combat today’s advanced persistent threats, say the result of a new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation. These findings highlight the fact that while cybercrime is on the rise, many organisations are still dangerously relying on outdated perimeter security solutions to defend against the latest threats.

The survey, which was carried out at Black Hat USA in August 2014, also revealed that 22 percent of those surveyed do not think that tools like firewalls and antivirus are able to defend against APTs. However, given the surge in organisations suffering advanced targeted cyber attacks, this number should have been much higher. Full Article