5 Security Experts Share Best Practices to Prevent Zero-Day Attacks

Imagine you accidentally leave a rarely-used window open in your home.

You don’t think anything of it until you notice things going missing. Thieves have been sneaking in and out of your house for days, availing themselves of your stuff using that neglected window. 

Zero-day attacks are exactly the same. Hackers find and exploit a vulnerability in your system before you know it exists. And until you find the bug, you can’t fix the problem. 

Today, zero-day vulnerabilities are being found on everyday platforms like Apple iOS, Google Chrome, and Windows. Cybercrimes and increasing variants of already found exploits are increasingly making it difficult to mitigate zero-day attacks.

For enterprises facing cybersecurity threats from zero-day attacks, the situation paints a grim picture. It feels as if there’s no hope of finding and preventing these kinds of attacks.

But experts note that it’s not always the case. Using the right security software and implementing best cybersecurity practices can guard against zero-day attacks. Keep reading to find out how.

What is a zero-day attack? 

Software developers don’t want to create software with bugs, obviously, but every software has unintentional flaws. After all, every 1,000 lines of code have 3 to 20 bugs. Some of these vulnerabilities create a security weakness in the design, implementation, or operation of a system or application. 

Cybercriminals look for these kinds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities to execute commands disguised as familiar systems. They could access and steal restricted data, behave like another user, or launch denial of service attacks. For instance, a system vulnerability in cloud storage might provide access to otherwise secure data on the cloud. 

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