Digital acceleration has ushered in a new way of working: employees now spend most of their time working in the cloud, using SaaS applications and other web-based tools. However, in doing so, organisations are now struggling to manage a variety of new blind spots in traditional approaches to security that are not fit to protect modern working models. Consequently, there has been a surge in a new class of cyber threats known as Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT).

This new class of threats evade detection by using techniques that leverage the web browser as an attack vector to gain initial access to the network and steal credentials or deploy malware, often ending in a full-blown ransomware attack. Largely unknown in the cybersecurity industry and unprotected against, HEAT were built specifically to compromise the shortcomings of traditional security tools.