Emerging threat sources

- [Instructor] Each and every day,…we as cyber security professionals must attempt…to get better at our jobs.…In addition to each layer of defense…that we add, though, we also have to be continually…on the lookout for new threat sources…and intelligence to learn from them.…Why? Well, because there are new cyber threats…that emerge each and every day.…If we don't keep ourself updated,…then the threat actors…can successfully exploit our networks.…Unfortunately, no organization is bulletproof.…No matter how we lay out our defenses,…and no matter how much we continually harden our networks,…hacker will always attempt to find a chink in our armor…and find a way into our networks.…

After all, if there's money to be made from hacking,…there will always be new hackers…who are attempting to break into our enterprise networks.…Often, our networks rely on signature-based defenses,…but it's also important for us to use heuristics.…Heuristics have a better chance…of finding an emerging threat source…than does a signature-based defense.…