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The Attacker Within: How Hackers Are Targeting Enterprise Networks From the Inside Out

Source: Zscaler
Date: August 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: As enterprise defenses evolve, so too do the attack vectors leveraged by those seeking to bypass such controls. We are entering an era where attackers are no longer working to punch a hole in the fortress surrounding enterprise IT assets from the outside. They don’t need to; they’re already inside. Thanks to the meteoric rise in the importance of Web-based traffic and a laundry list of vulnerabilities in Web-aware applications on the desktop, end users are now being turned into enablers for enterprise attacks. Convincing a trusting employee to visit a Web site is all that an attacker needs to do in order to access valuable data deep within a secure network.


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