Kaspersky Lab expert explains “Why are we still getting hacked?” at CIO Summit in KSA

Speaking at the CIO summit held in Jeddah today, David Jacoby, Senior Security Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team gave a presentation entitled “Why are we still getting hacked?” presenting the increasing cyber attacks and current threats in facts and figures, and discussing key security issues while providing strategic and insightful solutions.

During his presentation, Jacoby also spoke about the continuous increase in the number of signatures since they began to explode in 2005, when the “arm race” between malware writers and the AV industry began. A single signature can detect more than one piece of malware; one signature can be used to detect whole malware families, which may contain thousands of samples. Examples of signatures will be information theft, drive-by-downloads, Host exploit-kits, host/store malware.

Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS), and Kaspersky PURE, both show AV signatures and other signatures as one single number. Other signatures include signatures for phishing websites and malicious URLs, the IDS module (IDS = Intrusion Detection System) as well as other modules.

Jacoby also explained throughout his presentation the reasons why we are still getting hacked when all machines and systems are protected. The reason was attributed to 4 factors, which are prioritizing, education, awareness and configuration.

“Even that we spend allot of money on expensive solutions and consultants that try to secure our network, we are still getting hacked, malware is still getting distributed and information is getting leaked. Why is this possible? And how can we once and for all take advantage over the situation?” said David Jacoby, Senior Security Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team.

“As a leading provider of secure content solutions, Kaspersky Lab is proud to be part of this recognised IT leader focused conference and feel that our participation not only enables us to share our immense knowledge and expertise, but allows us to actively participate in helping to address key security issues to ensure such business momentum can continue and business strategies can be aligned effectively and securely,” concludes Jacoby.