Encrypted Traffic and Contemporary Cyber Threats
With the rapid and worldwide usage of encrypted data, encrypted traffic has also become a common practice nowadays that begets a challenge for traffic measurement. In the present era, network visibility is the need of an hour for all the current networks. Security, traffic provisioning, and failure detection are some core reasons to install traffic measurement. The cyber-world and tech-world are more concerned about the protection of transmitted data and privacy of users so encrypted transmitted data are also running rampant nowadays.
The adoption of encrypted traffic has become an important aspect of security and privacy. By leveraging it, users can be assured that their sensitive transactions and communications are more protected. As this adoption of encrypted traffic is increasing, attackers also utilizing this opportunity to hide their malicious activity in such traffic, launching 2.8 million encrypted attacks in 2019 so far.
Analysts’ say on Encrypted Attacks
According to research analysts, more than 70% of malware campaigns in 2020 will use some type of encryption to conceal malware delivery, command-and-control activity, or data exfiltration and 60% of organizations will fail to decrypt HTTPS efficiently, missing critical encrypted threats.
There are several types of research, analyses, and anomalies that are based on traffic types and measurements. Therefore, encrypted traffic is making these methods cumbersome. But, what is Data Encryption?
What is DATA ENCRYPTION
Data encryption is the most common method used by cybersecurity providers in which data is encrypted into some other form or code, so the third party doesn’t get access to the data. Only those people who have access to the password or decryption key would be able to translate the data back. Decrypted data is referred to as plaintext while encrypted data is called ciphertext. The main agenda behind this data encryption is to protect the digital confidentiality of user’s data and, information as much of the data is stored on computer systems or transmitted to other computers quite often, using modern algorithms. These algorithms play a crucial role in providing security to network systems and IT communications as they provide drive key security measures initiatives including authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation.
Cyber-attacks on Encrypted Data
The contemporary cyber-attacks on encrypted data are multiple and, one of them is the brute force means hit and trial method. Cyber hackers keep on trying random keys unless they find the right one. The length of the key gives clues to the attackers and, the plausibility of attack increases. It is also very important to remember that encryption strength is directly proportional to key size, but as the key size increases so do the number of resources required to perform the computation. There are other methods of breaking the cipher code like side-channel attacks and cryptanalysis. The probability of these attacks gets escalated if there is an error in system design or implementation. Side-channel attacks hit the system after the implementation of the cipher but, the cryptanalysis tends to find a weakness in the cipher and exploit it.
Similarly, there are various other threats related to encryption, for example:
• Loss of Physical Storage Media.
• Disclosure or Modification of Stored Data.
• Destruction of Stored Data.
• Disclosure of Data in Transit.
How NetworkFort fits your needs
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