Kaspersky Experts Give Tips For Handling Cyber Attacks Involving Humans

JAKARTA - Kaspersky's annual Managed Detection and Response Analyst Report reveals that in 2022, there will be at least three cyber incidents with a high severity caused by human involvement.

The incident was 30 percent related to APT, 26 percent of malware attacks, and more than 19 percent were generated from 'ethical hacking' (petests, red/red teaming, or other types of cyberspace exercises carried out in the customer sphere both for IT system security assessments and testing the operational readiness of the MDR service).

The MDR report shows that advanced human-driven attacks continue to grow. They need more resources to investigate and they confiscate more time analysts of the Security Operations Center (SOC) as this type of attack tends to automate at a lower level, "said Sergey Soldatov, Head of the Security Operations Center, Kaspersky.

To detect these attacks efficiently, Kaspersky advises companies to implement comprehensive threat hunting practices combined with classical warning monitoring.

For better protection from advanced attacks, the Kaspersky expert also recommended the following: