In general, the signature-based security products used to defend enterprise networks, such as firewalls, anti-virus products and intrusion detection systems are increasingly blind to modern attack methods, which are increasingly embedded into application data or designed to self-mutate in order to evade detection.

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Imagine if the problem had been first identified in November via a process to audit related systems based on the one reported intrusion into the internal chat application, or if an intrusion detection system had started firing red based on the exfiltration of their entire MySQL database.

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