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Business and the Cyber Threat
Written by: Henry Harrison
16 May 2012
Today sees the publication of the second BAE Systems Detica Cyber Security Monitor, 'Business and the Cyber Threat: Curiously Confident?', commissioned from Ipsos MORI into large UK businesses' attitudes to the cyber threat. The first report, published in December 2010, was the first detailed insight into business perceptions of the threat of cyber attack following the British Government's decision to elevate it to a 'Tier One' threat in its National Security Strategy. There are a few telling findings which I believe need to be highlighted. Firstly, it's very ...Read more
Tags: cyber threat | cyber security
The digital security environment
Written by: Henry Harrison
26 April 2012
With the growth of digital media, we are being increasingly exposed to new and evolving security challenges. This week I discussed these issues in a talk on The Costs of Digital Security – Protecting Privacy and Your IP at the British American Business Conference on The Future of Digital Media and Social Landscape, at Bloomberg’s offices in London. The difficulty with using digital security as a catch all term is that the security challenges we face are very different depending on the environment we’re in. There are innumerable security environments we operate in, but I focussed ...Read more
Tags: digital security | security environment
Antivirus software vs. behavioural monitoring
Written by: Henry Harrison
10 April 2012
I was interested by this story http://news.techworld.com/security/3336097/antivirus-software-powerless-stop-data-breach-attacks-study-finds/?intcmp=ros-md-acc-p-nws which replicated what we find in the incidents that we respond to: that attacks are increasingly evading conventional antivirus products. This is particularly the case for targeted attacks - the very attacks that are most likely to cause significant business damage. As more and more people realise this, there's growing interest in using behavioural monitoring to reveal evidence of such attacks. (Actually, a number of terms are being bandied around, of which behavioural monitoring is ...Read more
Tags: antivirus | behavioural monitoring | network forensics
It's not just governments who are the subjects of targeted cyber attacks
Written by: Henry Harrison
15 February 2012
Over the last year, it's become much more widely known that it's not just governments who are the subjects of targeted cyber attacks. But I thought this story: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/china-based-hackers-target-law-firms.html was particularly illustrative of just how broad the range of targets is. According to this report, law firms were hacked in order to covertly steal information relating to negotiations on an M&A deal.All professional services organisations ought to be really worried about this sort of incident. ...Read more
Tags: cyber attack | government | cyber
How do you tell when you’re under cyber attack?
Written by: Henry Harrison
05 September 2011
The easy answer to the question is that you don’t need to – you can simply assume that you are, all the time. Even your home network is constantly being bombarded with attempts to break in, but the good news is that the vast majority of these attempts are foiled because the vulnerability that was being targeted has been patched, or because security measures such as firewalls stop them. What’s more interesting is to ask how you tell when you’ve been successfully attacked. I’ve talked in a previous posting about ...Read more
Tags: cyber attack | firewalls | detection
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