 Hey there I'm Dean Perine of JSA and welcome to another special edition of JSA TV. Pull up any new site and you'll find evidence that cyber security threats are on the rise. Cyber security is top of mind for the world's largest businesses. Businesses who are being hit with ransomware schemes and DDoS attacks with increasing severity and frequency. A recent study by Telia Carrier reports that 68% of businesses experienced a DDoS attack in the last 12 months and 60% of the leaders have increased their security investments as a result of the pandemic. Telia Carrier's chief evangelist and my new friend Matthias Freidstrom is here again to explain how your choice of internet service providers can impact your internet security. Matthias it is always great to see you thanks for coming back. Yeah Dean it's always a pleasure to be here. Wonderful wonderful let's start at the very very top. What are the main security concerns for enterprises with regards to network security or connectivity? Yeah no I think you know you mentioned a few in there and I think you know if we disregard applications that can go wrong and so on and we look at the network at least you know I think you're obviously apart from your own people that can always make trouble for your own network. I think actually DDoS attacks as you talked about is the biggest problem and we can see that continues increasing you know and DDoS attacks comes in many shapes or forms. I think the most common one is when you're absolutely overloaded with traffic from anywhere in the world to your own web-based pages or so on and you can't use them they stop working and I think really that's the main concern in terms of the network security problems we have. Very good so why does the choice of ISP matter for internet security? No I think you know many ISPs can help you with these type of protections against DDoS attacks I think you know the way an ISP runs their services and they can actually do this you know and if I look at our own network what we do is we look for an anomalysis in the traffic you know making sure that traffic patterns are the same every day and as soon as we see something wrong we start to send those packages to the sort of a black hole in the internet you know taking them away and I think many ISPs can do this for their enterprise customers. I think some of them just ignore and they let everything through their network not looking at the traffic itself and I think you know the choice of your ISP can have a very big effect on your protection level. So what are some of the considerations then that someone might make when evaluating an internet provider? I think you know one thing they should look at is you know how much of the network do you own yourself that you actually control you know if you're a small ISP that actually own only a very local network in the neighborhood there's not that much you can do but if you connect yourself to a large internet service provider that can actually protect these type of attacks all over the place pretty much over continents you know that's a very good choice of going with one of them you know so let's make sure you connect to someone who's very well connected to other networks and actually own most of their own network I think those are two priorities you can make. Excellent excellent so earlier I referenced a report by you folks that you put out some key facts on cybersecurity but what were some of the most surprising numbers for you when you when you read that survey? Yeah no I think I think the number you talked about and also the fact that at least 78 percent of all the enterprises we investigated had had some type of attack and some of them even up to hundreds attacks during the last 12 months and as you said 68 percent of them had a DDoS attack with 55 percent of them being a ransom attack which I was very surprised of I've heard about them but you never really understand what they are you know that's when people demand a payment to unlock your computers or that type of stuff 56 percent that's more than half that's just really surprised me and I think one other key fact I saw there in there was that a number of enterprises are still kind of in the blue about their DDoS protection scheme or whatever they can have really a number of them have a good protection even some of them in-house themselves but there's still a lot of them out there that's just keep their fingers crossed that they won't be attacked and really have no clue how to do when that could happen you know no absolutely fingers crossed is just ain't going to work right now but also for our viewers who would like to know more about this report you can grab a link to that that report in this video this very video's description so go ahead and click on that and then finally Matias what does the future I ask this question a lot but it's one of my favorites you know what does the future of internet security look like no I think I think you know that the attackers are always going to be there you know there will be bad people out there so I think the more we can spread the word about these things the more we can engage our enterprise customers in these type of thinking so I think all of us together can protect the networks we can't do it alone enterprises can't do it alone we need to work together and I think that's the future of security really the whole ecosystem needs to jump in here you know I don't think people can still as you said you know keep their fingers crossed and hope that no one will attack them people will attack them but there are ways of working out this together but we can only do it together you know if every network is protected then they can't attack from anywhere the sort of weakest link is always in there and if someone says you know yeah that's not for me you know that's where their next attack is going to happen so together we can do it and I think that's the future outstanding a future of togetherness I love it I love it well Matias that is all we have time for today well thank you very much Matias for joining us it is always a pleasure to see you and viewers you can check out this video description for more great videos featuring Matias and we'll see you the next time on JSA TV thank you very much