The power of observability in decrypting cyber threats

Cybersecurity is critical for GCCs in fintech, facing evolving threats like AI-powered attacks and ransomware. GCCs are adopting AI-driven defenses, zero-trust architecture, and quantum-resistant cryptography while enhancing employee training to protect against these risks

- Brijesh Balakrishnan

With rapid advances in technology, cyberattacks are increasingly becoming stealthier and more complex, often evading detection by security tools. We are witnessing a significant rise in APT’s or Advanced Persistent Threats, where intruders establish unauthorized access and long-term presence on targeted networks, to mine highly sensitive data. This has prompted businesses to develop robust cybersecurity strategies and observability is the latest buzzword in enterprise cybersecurity arsenal.

Observability is a thought process that provides deep insights into the data being ingested for analytics. It provides a granular view for detecting any anomalous behavior observed in the environment, based on hypotheses with deep investigation. Observability is leveraged in cybersecurity to help detect threats and unusual activities, especially low and slow attacks that are designed to evade detection by security monitoring tools. Another driving factor for the rising popularity of observability is that organizations are looking at deriving a more contextualized view, by analyzing data collected from various data sources (known as MELT – metrics, events, logs, and traces), in order to gain insights on how a system performs in terms of response time and issuing of an alert.

▾ The need for a unified observability platform