| |September 20208PREDICTION IS BETTER THAN CURE: RE-TOOLING CYBERSECURITY THROUGH PREDICTIVE ANALYTICSBy Dr.Sanjay Katkar, Joint Managing Director & CTO, Quick Heal TechnologiesQuick Heal Technologies is one of the leading IT security solutions companies. Over a span of 25 years the company's R&D has focused on computer and network security solutions. The current portfolio of cloud-based security and advanced machine learning enabled solutions stop threats, attacks and malicious traffic before it strikes.Though the famous British socialist Audrey Farrell said these words in the context of social activism and politics, they apply just as well to modern-day enterprise security. Businesses need to learn from past mistakes, while strengthening the current security robustness and enhancing their readiness for the future. Why? Because the rapid evo-lution of the threat landscape is threatening all aspects of en-terprise operations. Every busi-ness decision today is governed by data. We give others access to our privacy with every click. Net-works are becoming increasingly porous, even as interconnectivity continues to grow exponentially through the adoption of digital tools and a BYOD work culture.All of this puts businesses at a greater cybersecurity risk than they have ever been. In H2 2018, Seqrite, the enterprise arm of Quick Heal Technologies, detect-ed and blocked over 50 million cyber-threats with Cryptojack-ing and Ransomware contrib-uting 15000 and 2000 hits on a daily basis. Threats and vulnerabilities that led to these breaches seem glaringly obvious in hindsight. But what if there was a way to pro-actively identify these threats? This is exactly where the concept expert opinion
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