George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, speaks at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in 2017. CrowdStrike released it’s Global Threat Report, which shows the old-fashioned way of hacking â with hands on keyboards â isnât going out of style anytime soon. (Fortune Brainstorm Tech)
The cybersecurity industry is often rife with hype around the topic of automation, with both IT security teams and malicious hacking groups steadily incorporating more tools and processes that can rapidly and automatically scan networks or process large datasets at speeds far faster than humans.
However, according to CrowdStrikeâs new Global Threat Report, the old-fashioned way of hacking â with hands on keyboards â isnât going out of style anytime soon. The companyâs OverWatch platform has observed a fourfold increase in interactive intrusions over the past two years, with nearly half of that increase driven by an explosion in e-crime like ransomware and business email compromise.