The cybersecurity skills gap seems to have no intention of stopping, especially with cyber crimes reaching a new high during the COVID-19, and cybercriminals keep finding success with automated bot-driven fraud attacks that leads to data breaches, account takeover, credential stuffing, credit card fraud, etc. Studies by the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) found that the shortage of cybersecurity skills and professionals has been on a downward trend for 5 years by 2021.
What strings cybersecurity skills crisis is increasing workloads, staff shortages, and inevitable proliferation of cyberattack risks for organizations. “I’ve seen companies that lack technological capabilities and are understaffed by cybersecurity professionals, while most of them are also short of ‘the awareness of cybersecurity.” said Long Fang, GeeTest vice president. Too many companies just don’t believe cyberattacks will affect them. Security teams in those companies sometimes tend to be treated like “boys who cried wolf”. As long as there is no real damage to the business, improvements to web security will be put on hold. However, cyber attackers keep developing more sophisticated bots to evade those outdated bot detection systems in the meantime, which results in companies’ websites and apps being open to abuse.
How companies should handle this crisis right? Long Fang explained, “For companies that live in today’s expanding digital ecosystem, one way to correctly undertake this crisis is to raise awareness of cybersecurity management and then to manage cybersecurity skills.”
The world of cybersecurity is not all black and white. Companies should not count on a security solution or tool that can get things done once and forever. Technology evolves, both for defenders and attackers. A reliable security solution should adapt to the changes and do not degrade over time, which is what GeeTest believes when they design 3 Shields, a
GeeTest launched 3 Shields to help online businesses, from small to large, protect their websites, apps, and APIs from sophisticated bot-driven fraud and attacks by offering a solution that is composed of three key products (Behavior Verification, Device Verification, and Identity Verification).
“3 Shields are designed to help businesses reduce the impact of malicious bots.” said GeeTest VP Fang Long, “our solution shapes itself to our client’s changing needs and attacking measures. From over 9-year practice, GeeTest found the reason why cybercriminals kept succeeding in bot-driven fraud attacks is that they have three advantages.
- First, automated programs increase the efficiency of cyber-attacks by ensuring bot attacks happen day and night.
- Second, the development of group/cloud control platforms allows cybercriminals to control a large number of devices to help bots bypass device fingerprinting systems.
- Third, the black market offers attackers loads of credential information to back up bot attacks that involve identity verification, like ATO.
Hence, GeeTest developed three products that specifically target the three advantages of cyber attackers, ensuring client’s websites, apps and APIs are free of bad traffic without causing user friction. GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA is the core of the GeeTest 3 Shields solution. By developing machine learning models, GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA works by continuously adapting to the changing attack tends and client’s security demand.
Key features of GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA
- Adaptive security strategies: 7-layer dynamic security strategy changes with the patterns that bots attack and transforms to 4374 security strategies per defense cycle, increasing 3.714 times the cost of cyber attackers.
- Fully customized protection: to suit every client’s security demand, GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA allows clients to configure CAPTCHA challenge frequency, difficulty, and types for suspicious requests.
- Seamless integration: GeeTest Adaptive CAPTCHA offers three modes (Intelligent Mode, Invisible Mode, Direct Platform Integration) to make CAPTCHA service integrate with the client’s own security system.
- Uninterrupted user experience: 6 CAPTCHA types include NoCAPTCHA CAPTCHA, Slide CAPTCHA, IconCrush CAPTCHA, Gobang CAPTCHA, Icon CAPTCHA, which suit various security demands without interrupting the user experience.
“Every website or app needs traffic for generating sales or business growth, but it is not ‘the more, the better. Both quantity and quality of traffic are important for a high-performing online business. High-quality traffic means a higher conversion rate and sales volume, while malicious bot traffic only wastes your ad bill and holds up the development of your business. Bad bot traffic keeps taking up internet traffic, and it is urgent for online businesses to identify high-quality traffic. GeeTest provides ‘3 Shields’ for companies to boost their business by helping them identify good traffic and block bad traffic.” said Long Fang, GeeTest’s VP.
About 3 Shields
3 Shields is a bot management solution belonging to GeeTest, based on GeeTest’s exclusive AI models and 9-year experience of defending bad bots. Focusing on the research of cyber attackers and bot attacks, GeeTest provides 3 Shields as a comprehensive solution to protect websites, apps, and APIs from bot attacks.
About GeeTest
Founded in 2012, GeeTest is a leading bot management company that offers international bot mitigation solutions and services, including CAPTCHAs, with advanced AI and ML models. The company protects over 320,000 websites and apps worldwide including Imperva, DataDome, miHoYo, Binance, Nike, etc, and issues over 1,400,000,000 requests every day.
