Telecommunications: an Industry Under Attack
As a first line of defence, telecommunications systems are at the forefront of hacker’s attempts to compromise complex and critical national infrastructure.
80%
of telecoms leaders view cybersecurity as ‘highly critical’
28%
of telecom security incidents in 2021 resulted in data leakage
280 days
was the average amount of time taken to find an contain a breach in 2021
$3.86m
was the average cost of a cyber attack in 2021
Telecommunications cyber threats continue to rise
Unfortunately for telecoms businesses, there are a number of reasons why an adversary might want to access their infrastructure and applications. Nation state actors might target communication channels for covert surveillance, whilst customer data is another highly appealing target for cyber criminals.
Why telecom companies love SenseOn
Minimal effort required to correlate data
The nature of the telecoms industry means that there is an extraordinarily high volume of data. This, in turn, generates a significant amount of security data. SenseOn correlates all of this security data into one usable format so analysts can instantly find out who, what, where, when and how without having to try and link up information from disparate sources.
Direct observation of your network
As security teams are becoming more distributed through remote working, it is becoming even harder to access network information with traditional tools. SenseOn’s Universal Sensor collects data across remote workers, offices, production sites and cloud instances at once with an EPNS service to correlate endpoint information and the network data at the point of being recorded.
Drastic reduction in blind spots
With sensitive data comes great responsibility. It is a top priority that there are no security blind spots in a telecoms company’s digital estate. Any gap could be an entryway for adversaries to access confidential information. Our Universal Sensor provides specific, granular information without the traffic jam of lots of different tools to stop adversaries from penetrating your estate.
Reduction of noise
As with many security teams, resources for cyber security within telecoms businesses are often thinly stretched. As such, there is rarely the capacity to resolve the thousands of alerts that are generated by traditional security tools. Using a highly accurate AI based reasoning framework, SenseOn only brings true positive alerts to the attention of analysts, dramatically reducing security operating costs.
