Roundtables

Cyber security: Be afraid. Be very afraid

No organisation is safe from a cyber breach, be it a small to medium-sized business, or a large enterprise. All are vulnerable. The days of only worrying about a handful of nosey hackers wanting to snoop around are long gone. Nowadays, the bad guys are a lot more threatening. They will steal sensitive data and threaten to release it, load ransomware onto the network and hold systems ‘hostage’. They’re also not beyond searching out important information and passing it on to a competitor. This roundtable looks at how businesses must adapt to a more threatening IT environment.

03 September 2018

When it comes to IT security, it seems you can do everything right and still get caught out. Is it time to accept that breaches will happen?

Tim Quintal, senior product manager: cyber resilience, Internet Solutions (IS): If there are attackers who are sufficiently motivated, and who have enough resources, they will get in no matter what you have in place. This is why we are moving from talking ‘cyber security’ with our clients to talking ‘cyber resilience’.

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