{"id":559167,"date":"2023-11-04T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=559167"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:11:23","slug":"automatic-incident-response-the-key-to-robust-institutional-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/company\/automatic-incident-response-the-key-to-robust-institutional-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Incident Response \u2014 The Key to Robust Institutional Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Web3 users lost nearly $1 billion<\/a> to various hacks, scams, and exploits as of August 2023. Q3 2023 alone saw over $700 million<\/a> in losses.<\/p>\n

Experts from the Forta community identified<\/a> that projects fail to act in time and stop attacks, despite real-time threat detection by efficient detector bots. This stems from an excessive (or, obsessive) focus on code<\/em>, vis-\u00e0-vis a more holistic approach to smart contract security.<\/p>\n

Proactive threat mitigation is thus the need of the hour as blockchain-powered use cases regain traction<\/a> after a year-long slump. The stakes are growing<\/a> with a rise in daily Unique Active Wallet (dUAW) interactions, trading volumes, and institutional participation.<\/p>\n

Forta\u2019s Attack Detector Bot<\/a> has already proven its mettle in real-time threat and anomaly detection using advanced AI and ML models. Their developers\u2019 community is now leveraging OpenZeppelin\u2019s innovative Incident Response<\/a> (IR) framework to solve the prevention side of the problem.<\/p>\n

The Significance of Automatic Threat Prevention<\/h3>\n

Web3 is one of the fastest growing industries, yet most Web3 protocols can\u2019t stop an exploit even when it\u2019s detected minutes in advance.<\/p>\n

They \u2018can\u2019t do anything that fast<\/em>.\u2019 It takes about 24 hours<\/a> to pause the protocol<\/em>, which is often the only option to prevent identified threats. For an industry where scaling means succeeding, that\u2019s more than an eternity.<\/p>\n

An exchange or marketplace, where thousands of users move assets worth millions of dollars can\u2019t take an entire day to respond to a threat. Because malicious actors are constantly inventing new ways to execute more devastating exploits\u2014it\u2019s their way of scaling.<\/p>\n

The Web3 industry must either keep pace with its enemies or perish. There are no two ways about it.<\/p>\n

However, hyper-centralized security architecture of Web2 isn\u2019t an option. It\u2019s crucial to build and adopt Web3-native systems based on progressive principles: decentralization, automation, transparency, and community-orientation.<\/p>\n

To this end, code-based, self-executing threat mitigation and response systems are a perfect alternative. They unlock a holistic security paradigm where efficient detector bots and circuit breakers work in sync. And this groundbreaking development will particularly well serve institutional use cases, where the cost of exploit and cybersecurity are both very high.<\/p>\n

How Incident Response (IR) Works<\/h3>\n

OpenZeppelin integrated IR into its Defender v2, enabling \u2018you to instantly detect, respond, and resolve threats and attacks with predefined actions and scenarios.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n

Besides conducting attack simulations and testing real-world scenarios, you can use IR to:<\/p>\n