How to Block Over 99% of Zero-Day and Ransomware Attacks

Cybercrime continues to expand at an alarming rate. Research by Statista revealed that in 2025, over 278 million individuals were affected by data compromises, including data breaches, leakage, and exposure.

Most breaches are zero-day attacks, which compromise devices before anyone is aware they are vulnerable. Zero-day vulnerabilities are unknown security flaws or bugs in software, firmware, or hardware that the vendor is unaware of or hasn’t yet issued an official patch to fix. Zero-day exploits are becoming more common as cybercriminals find more sophisticated ways to carry out their attacks. According to the 2025 Google Threat Intelligence Group report, enterprise software and edge devices remain prime targets, with 48% of zero-day attacks targeted at enterprise-grade technology.

In the midst of growing cybercrime, organizations are increasingly adopting a multi-layer strategy to strengthen their security defenses and reduce risk.

Reducing Risk with Deep Learning

One of the most effective ways to prevent zero-day attacks is with deep learning, an advanced form of artificial intelligence (AI). Deep learning works similarly to how the human brain works in that once a brain learns to identify an object, its identification becomes second nature. With deep learning, the AI is learning, not just memorizing or following instructions. Deep learning has become a very important advancement in AI because it can model and analyze complex patterns in data all on its own.

When applied to cybersecurity, deep learning can instinctively and autonomously predict threats to stop unknown malware and zero-day attacks by identifying and preventing them before they can infiltrate the environment.

Unlike traditional machine learning (ML) methods of AI, deep learning models automatically extract and learn features from raw data without requiring manual feature engineering. This makes deep learning a powerful tool for understanding the underlying characteristics of an attack and detecting and stopping it before it can execute on an endpoint.

What About Firewalls, EDR, and XDR?

Firewalls, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions are unable to reliably recognize and stop zero-day attacks. Zero-day vulnerabilities need to be patched to fix the issue, and this could take up to 100 days, giving cybercriminals a significant window of opportunity to cause harm.

Even when patches are developed quickly, there are potential risks. If patches are not thoroughly tested or too many are released at once, issues can arise—as demonstrated by the global outage caused by a CrowdStrike patch in 2024.

A Layered Approach to Cybersecurity Is Critical

A multi-layered approach to security is always the best one. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) proactively secures the network edge and access to cloud applications, while Ransomware and Zero-Day Prevention protects individual devices, and detects and contains breaches that inevitably can occur. Both are necessary in providing a comprehensive approach to help your enterprise protect data, endpoints, and networks from modern cyber threats.

Hughes Managed SASE

Hughes Managed SASE is a cutting-edge network architecture that unifies networking and security functions into a single, cloud-native service model. SASE combines SD-WAN with Secure Service Edge (SSE) technologies which include Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud Access Security Broker, Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway, and Firewall-as-a-Service.

Managed SASE reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating network and security services under one platform and working with one provider. By merging multiple tools into a single solution, SASE can reduce both the complexity and cost associated with managing separate networking and security technologies, which lowers operational overhead. Because SASE is cloud-delivered, it eliminates the need for separate investments in security appliances, firewalls, VPNs, and other hardware.

Hughes Managed Ransomware and Zero-Day Prevention

Hughes Ransomware and Zero-Day Prevention is a threat prevention and response solution that provides endpoint protection through a multi-layer prediction and prevention-first approach.

The solution combines deep learning with a traditional Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP). An EPP provides preventative security measures to keep enterprise endpoints such as laptops, mobile devices, printers, and servers safe from zero-day attacks.

While EDR tools offer proactive cybersecurity protection by continuously monitoring local and remote devices connected to the network, EPP tools are preventative and aim to reduce endpoint security breaches.

The Hughes solution provides proactive ransomware and zero-day attacks prevention, 24/7 monitoring and notification, incident response, and periodic reporting and reviews with a Hughes Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst. Hughes Ransomware and Zero-Day Prevention touts an industry-leading 99%+ success rate in identifying and blocking unknown, zero-day, and ransomware attacks.

Is Your Business Safe from Cyberattacks?

If you’re not 100% sure, a trusted managed service provider like Hughes can evaluate your security needs and recommend the most suitable solutions to strengthen your cybersecurity defenses and safeguard your business from threats. Even if you have an in-house IT team, Hughes can complement your existing resources to improve security and support business growth.

Contact us to learn more about Hughes Managed SASE.