Companies look beyond firewalls in cyber battle with hackers


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 27 Jan 2016

Disagreement: Several big tech companies have voiced their opposition to the current version of CISA, arguing that it fails to protect users' privacy and does too little to prevent cyberattacks.

TEL AVIV: With firewalls no longer seen as enough of a defence against security breaches, companies are looking at new tools to foil hackers trying to enter a computer network. 

US and Israeli startups are leading the way, with new approaches such as "honeytraps" that lure a hacker to fake data or "polymorphic" technology that constantly changes the structure of applications running on a computer. 

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