With cyber threats increasing in volume and sophistication, traditional enterprise security tools are no longer enough. In a new CyberScoop video interview, Mike Denning, Chief Product Officer for Trinity Cyber, discussed the shortcomings of conventional defenses and how a fundamentally different approach — Full Content Inspection — is helping organizations stay ahead of adversaries.
“We’re seeing more and more attacks, more attack vectors,” says Denning. But despite record-level investments in cybersecurity, Denning noted that penetration testers hired to simulate attacks still succeed 90% of the time—a figure that has remained stubbornly consistent over the last several years.
A core reason for this stagnation, Denning explained, is that most network security tools haven’t evolved. “For the last 20 years, network security hasn’t changed,” he says. “It’s been ‘find a problem, block a problem.’ And essentially it has the security departments playing Whack-A-Mole.”
Instead of detecting and blocking threats, Trinity Cyber’s Full Content Inspection technology actively removes malicious code from network traffic in real time. “So it’s not about blocking traffic, it’s about the precision removal of the malicious code,” says Denning.
A high-profile example demonstrating the value of Trinity Cyber’s approach was the Log4j vulnerability, which affected 3 billion servers globally in 2021. Trinity Cyber’s threat hunting team quickly identified the attack signature and deployed a countermeasure that neutralized the threat within four hours across all its customer environments. “It gave organizations the time to do the patching that was required, with a little less panicked approach,” says Denning.
Beyond immediate threat prevention, the technology offers significant operational benefits. “Our false positive rate on Full Content Inspection is less than 0.1%,” says Denning. “That’s a tiny fraction of what a lot of traditional indicators of compromise are alerting.” That reduction eases the burden on cybersecurity teams and limits post-breach costs like server reimaging, data loss investigations and legal responses.
In addition, Denning believes this content-level approach will be critical for future-proofing cybersecurity. “What everybody’s going after is cyber resilience,” he says. “And with this proactive approach, it’s much more durable, much more long-term sustainable. It helps really focus your resources in the organization on the things that they need to do the most.”
Learn more about how Trinity Cyber’s Full Content Inspection technology replaces outdated cybersecurity solutions.
This video panel discussion was produced by Scoop News Group, for CyberScoop and sponsored by Trinity Cyber.
