One approach towards ensuring that such attacks do not occur is to create a culture of selecting only those sites / addresses which we are very sure about as being safe and secure, which is commonly referred to as “white listing” of sites for granting access. 12.
Today, tools like Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), Network Behaviour Anomaly Detection (NBAD), Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), etc are available which provides deep visibility into operations and quickly detect a security breach. Besides, one approach being increasingly adopted by banks – apart from procuring tools and having rules – is following the age-old and time tested method of using analytics.