Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Georges Lotigier, CEO of Vade Retro (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: That’s interesting. Of course, email volume is going to continue to go up. The volume of spam and unsolicited email is going to go up. Email marketing is going up. People who are sending you marketing messages through email is going up. This is one part of the trend. How and what do you extrapolate from that? What are the implications of that?

Goerges Lotigier: It’s all about money. Cybercriminals are using cloud services, then build very easily 200 IP addresses for one hour and send spam emails with them. The more the cloud service is free and easy to use, such free web hosting, the more the cybercriminals have the ability to attack using these infrastructure. Cybercriminals are very organized and win a lot of money doing that. We see that the quantity of phishing, for example, is increasing at 40% per year. An other example, in July, we had 300% more viruses more than last year.So with all these methodS to spam the world, the quantity of information we have to manage is huge and still rising. In order to manage it we use a big data approach to analyse in real time and block threats in live mode. This is also one of Vade Retro’s innovations for more reactivity against more and more sophisticated and targeted attacks. 

To secure efficiently the email environment, we exchange a lot of data between different organization that are dependent of the email ecosystems or those who can be abused through email scam. For example,  banks, brands, ISPs, or even competitors. We exchange more and more data between different actors of this ecosystem to be able to track the cybercriminals. My opinion is that the future of email depend of its security.  We can say that email is the best channel to send malware. I don’t know the exact percentage but something like in80% of attacks, email is involved. Email is a great part of the security. 

We are thinking that the collaboration between players is very important. We are supplying a service called ISITPHISHING.org, which is a free collaborative project. Besides “traditional” spam waves, there is the phishing threat. To fight it efficiently, we’ve developed a webpage exploration engine. We open the URL and can see if there is malware injection. We provide this collaborative tool to the community and we think that is the only way to fight cybercriminals by exchanging a large quantity of information.

This segment is part 3 in the series : Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Georges Lotigier, CEO of Vade Retro
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