Following Blue Coat’s discovery of ‘Inception’ - “one of the most sophisticated malware attacks Blue Coat Labs has ever seen", Kevin Epstein, VP of Advanced Security & Governance at Proofpoint has given the following comment:
“With the discovery of each new attack employing malware that’s increasingly sophisticated at evading detection, the glaring commonality in all of them seems ever more important: the attacks all started with a Phish. Stop the email vector properly, and the malware sophistication becomes irrelevant. So why are targeted enterprises still renewing contracts on 3-4 year old legacy secure email gateways, instead of investing in modern cloud-based advanced threat systems for email”