Cybersecurity in B2B:How Businesses Protect Against Hackers

Business is one of the many areas of activity most susceptible to the risks of hacker attacks and data theft by intruders. These risks should not be underestimated, since the consequences of a frivolous attitude to information security can be very dire: from losses and loss of market share to a complete shutdown of the company's activities while the information systems are restored. This article describes the main types of threats and possible methods to prevent them.

Types of cyberattacks in B2B

Companies in the B2B sector are especially often exposed to deliberate and well-prepared attacks. Hackers often choose a target in advance, collect information about installed security systems, combine several methods of breaking this security at once, are ready to wait a long time, and generally approach business strategically. However, we must not forget about the elementary carelessness of employees.

Cyber-attack: definition and types

An attack on the information property of companies, the safety, and integrity of software or personal computers is called a cyber-attack.

Unlawful access by an attacker or a group of person’s breaks into the computer system of an enterprise, theft of classified information occurs and, in some cases, full control over the activities of organizations is seized.

Targeted attacks

B2B companies use licensed software (which, however, does not guarantee anything - they also regularly find weak points in it), but they are vulnerable through e-mail (mail) and additional software. As a rule, it is through mailing letters and malware that hackers gain access to data.

Random attacks

The Internet contains a lot of cognitive and informational material, however, there are suspicious sites, software, and malicious links embedded in videos. A company can be accidentally attacked (with a probability of about 90%) if employees freely access the Internet without using anti-malware protection or install and use software from unverified sources.

Cyber ​​Weapon Attacks

A rare subtype of attacks, relevant only to the largest companies operating on a global scale.

The Most Popular Hacker Attacks and How to Defend Against Them

The target of hackers is individual computers or a local area network of an individual or a group of companies. DDoS attacks, ICMP attacks, DNS cache corruption, TCP desynchronization, port scanning and other tools are used to achieve this goal.

Protection methods: installing firewalls, next-generation anti-virus programs, blocking applications installed from untrusted sources.

Social Engineering

In hacker slang, it is called "hacking" the system through employees. The simplest example is the well-known practice of stealing funds from a bank account: an alleged bank employee calls you and says that money is being debited from your account right now. He is polite, accurate, perhaps even knows the name and passport details. You gain trust, name your username and password, a code word, or something else that helps an attacker gain access to your account. The ending is clear.

Data is stolen in the same way. Hackers get in touch with an employee of the company and, under one or another plausible pretext, receive the necessary information.

Brute Force

This method of cyberattack is used in the case of a high-quality cybersecurity system at an enterprise, with difficulties in gaining access to the network in other ways. Using special software, hackers sequentially go through all possible password options until they get into the network.

Methods of protection: constant updating of access codes, passwords to the system, installation of programs for reading the number of entries, and the time between entering passwords and the staff of programmers.

Ransomware Viruses

Known viruses such as CBF, Chippendale, just, foxtail inbox com, watnik91 AOL com. They encrypt data stored in photos, applications, spreadsheets, and work files. Companies that have undergone such an attack are offered to return data availability for money. Usually, hackers ask for a certain amount in bitcoins. But often the encrypted data cannot be decrypted even after the money has been paid.

The following measures are used to protect against ransomware viruses:

·         Data backup.

·         Installing antivirus software and updating it regularly.

·         Restricting the software environment in domains.

·         Regular training of employees in the field of information security.

PUP or Potentially Unwanted Program

PUP: eng. abbr. Potentially Unwanted Program is a Potentially Unwanted Program. Such applications are harmless but annoying. These include:

·         Joke programs - interfere with the work of users, scare them with actions that are not performed in reality.

·         Utilities for unauthorized remote administration - allow third parties to use other people's networks. It is important to distinguish between these and legal remote access software.

·         Advertising applications - obtrusively pop up in the process.

The methods of protection are the installation of antiviruses, filters, and passwords for remote access.

Hacking Accounts

Accounts are hacked using phishing, social engineering, pharming, and brute-force passwords. The goal of a hack is a password that ultimately provides hackers with access to users' personal or business information.

Attackers create fake pages that are difficult even for experienced users to distinguish from genuine ones. The victim voluntarily enters a username, password, while the hacker intercepts this information, and the user does not even know about it.

The way to protect against the hacking of the account is to select a complex password from a combination of letters of different cases and numbers.

Outdated Software

Software (SW) is relatively safe if it is timely updated and installed only from trusted sources.

SQL Injection

This attack is dangerous because it provides hackers with access to the security system through a web interface. SQL Injections are software bugs that are independent of host providers. Using this type of attack, attackers are able to change databases, delete important information, and working documents.

The main technique for preventing SQL injection is to validate and parameterize input queries, including prepared statements (at the developer level).

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