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Cybersecurity and Web Data

It takes cybercriminals two days to penetrate 93% of a company’s network. These sort of stats send corporate security teams in a race to fend off digital attacks, requiring a full arsenal of sophisticated solutions at the ready. 

This starts with access to reliable data. Web data provides security operators with clear visibility into their own (and the overall) landscape and enables them to understand the weaknesses in both. In fact, many security organisations in industries such as finance, use techniques like public web scraping to ensure that their security operations are comprehensively tested. This allows them to prepare for different threat scenarios that can potentially target their own networks.
    
Have You Got the Resources to Safeguard Your Network?

With only 43% of US businesses feeling financially prepared to face a cyberattack in 2022, according to Forbes, web data collection networks, including IP proxy networks, are necessary both to gather extensive web data to keep you "landscape-informed" as well as to test your operation from all possible angles.  

Data, and especially public web data, can be leveraged in a myriad of ways to mitigate possible threats. These include automated checks to discover malware, phishing links, fraud, information leaks and counterfeiting schemes, as well as gathering intelligence, security research and testing on different threats, actors or outcomes. 

Public web data can be used to test an organisation’s network infrastructure, including its hardware, for weaknesses and vulnerabilities while measuring the organisation’s threat detection and response capabilities. It can also be used to address and prevent real-time threats and dangers through increased visibility and detection proficiency.
  
These networks enable security operators and teams to bypass a wide variety of blocking techniques that some websites employ to prevent access to their content. In addition, these professional web data platforms and proxy networks offer vastly increased visibility over the entire cybersecurity landscape, based on live and reliable data. This is a critical benefit as it provides security teams with the actionable intelligence, they need to make fast and accurate decisions and protect their networks.
 
Not Every Web Data Platform Is Created Equal

It is important to understand that not all web data platforms are created equal. Security organisations should only be choosing data providers with a compliance-driven platform based on deterrence, prevention and enforcement – one that promotes transparency and can be fully monitored. Only platforms with this level of integrity will provide their customers with the knowledge and peace of mind that their entire ecosystem, including their customers’ networks and operations, remain uncompromised.
 
What Is a Compliance-Driven Platform?

Compliance-driven data platforms must involve checks and balances and be based on a complex, multi-tiered process that includes both internal safeguards and procedures as well as third-party audits. These should include manual reviews, automated code-based prevention and technological response mechanisms. Third-party audits should be designed to identify non-compliant activity patterns. They should also ensure that all use cases using the web data platform adhere to the overall compliance guidelines and abide by international standards as well as the company’s and industry’s best practices.
 
These platforms should also be certified users of leading security organisations, such as Clean Software Alliance, AppEsteem, McAfee, Avast, AVG and others, which run comprehensive tests that data vendors must take before actually being certified. 
 
Web Data Platforms – Can You Really Afford Not To Use Them?
 
With 29% of CEOs and chief information security officers (CISOs) and 40% of chief security officers admitting that their organisations are unprepared for the tsunami of cyberattacks being experienced, having a web data partner you can trust and who mirrors your own corporate values is a "must-have" in today’s business world. 

Compliant-driven platforms with their ability to provide a clear, comprehensive and reliable view of the entire landscape, including possible undiscovered threats, need to play a critical role in any organisation’s cybersecurity strategy, especially as this field continues to become more and more of a strategic business imperative.

By Ofir Meir, Director of Security Partnerships at Bright Data

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