Scott Schober - What keeps Odix CTO, Omri Eytan up at night?

It’s an asymmetric game where the attacker only needs to succeed once while the defender needs to block everything’

Keeping pace with the ever-growing network of cyber criminals and their devastating malware creations has never been more complicated. From global networks of state sponsored hackers to cyber terrorists exploiting security gaps to causes economic destruction and wholescale loss of data, the risks facing network security are expanding by the minute.

With this in mind, odix CTO Omri Eytan sat down with Scott Schober to talk about the evolving face of cyber security risk and how international hacker networks are creating malware that consistently eludes common defense layers.

What Keeps you up at night?

According to Eytan: “Every month millions of new malicious files are released to the world. Estimates range between 10-20 new variants are released on a monthly basis. The scale and scope of these malicious file-based attacks continue to rise by the day.”

In his commentary, Omri reevaluates the classic detection paradigm, that looks at a file and asks ‘Is this malware?’ and determines that hackers have become sophisticated enough to develop countless ways to avoid detection by common ATP policies.

How to stay one step ahead of hackers

Omri continued with his assessment on the difficulty in stopping hackers.

According to Eytan, “Its an asymmetric game where the attacker only needs to succeed once while the defender needs to block everything, and still get some business done.” Hackers are playing the odds, with the final payout coming from your bank account.

How to improve the detection paradigm

Companies must shift their thinking in the composition of security layers to include innovative malware prevention technologies that are detection less. With the implementation of cutting-edge cyber security processes, such as CDR, and the integration of best in class third party solutions to complement existing security protocols-end users are less at risk to malware and cyber-attacks.

What keeps Odix CTO, Omri Eytan up at night?

Omni Etyan brings over 15 years of deep technology background as a programmer, researcher, strategist and product leader. He is an avid technophile with a vast knowledge and expertise in cyber security technologies, solution and hacking and CTO of Odix, an Israeli-based, dynamic cybersecurity company with both a proven track record of enterprise-level success and innovative product development.

Prior to joining Odix, Omri played major roles in various companies in the advertising, telecom and infrastructure sectors. Omri presents an interesting combination of tech entrepreneur, coder, and musician with the ability to make any technical concept interesting and engaging to a wide audience.

Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity and wireless technology expert, author of Hacked Again and Cybersecurity is Everybody's Business, host of 2 Minute CyberSecurity Briefing video podcast and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems who appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, Fox Business & Fox News, CGTN America, Canadian TV News, as well as CNN, CBS Morning Show, MSNBC, CNBC, The Blaze, WPIX as well as local and syndicated Radio including Sirius/XM & Bloomberg Radio and NPR.

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