Cybercriminals use a multi-pronged approach for their attack strategies, which are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The latest "Threat Landscape Report" from Fortinet, for example, shows that cybercriminals were more likely to target vulnerabilities from 2007 than those from 2018. They can potentially target a network and, by attacking it on all fronts simultaneously, simply overwhelm the network's ability to defend itself. The goal is to develop an adaptive immune system for the network similar to the one in the human body. They include:Machine learning can be combined with statistical analysis to predict attacks by uncovering the underlying attack patterns of cybercriminals.

Source: Bangkok Post February 18, 2020 22:18 UTC