Combating Sophisticated Cyber Attacks in our digital-driven world.
Because of the sophistication of the recent
cyberattacks, such as, that one, which targeted Sony Pictures, much among us
believe that, security leaders are more and more incompetent. Right or wrong
perhaps.
But, at Connectikpeople.co we remind that, a set of
realities and challenges related to the evaluation of the top priorities within
the companies, more often, can lead to disasters like what, we observe since a
week, at Sony Pictures.
Security
leaders are not outstripped in the cyber war. Security
leaders should join the executive board.
Security leaders who have, as top
priorities: regulations, new technologies, and internal threats, have to
appropriate the protection of critical assets, focusing investments on
intelligence and recruiting top industry talent to augment internal efforts.
Traditional technologies that focus on network intrusion prevention,
advanced malware detection and network vulnerability scanning should be combined with data leakage prevention,
cloud security and mobile/device security .
It is exciting to remind that a global approach to combating cybercrime should
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