The cyber security frontline: your business

Eugene Kapersky – the founder of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held anti-malware vendor – made four important points in his cybersecurity seminar at Infosec 2013:

  1. “Every company is a victim of cyber attacks, whether they know it or not;”
  2. Even smaller businesses have a critical role to play in preventing cyber attackers from using them as stepping stones to bigger victims;
  3. Governments (and, by my extension, critical national infrastructure organisations) have an essential duty to move their services to more secure environments where cyber attack is very difficult; and
  4. Everyone – governments in particular, as they control large budgets and regulatory powers – must contribute to the drive to increase the universe of cyber security skills.

From a ‘take action’ point of view, this translates into

  1. Carry out a cyber security risk assessment as soon as possible, and act on the findings; and
  2. Initiate a programme of cyber skills security training amongst your IT team.

In the dark world of cyber security, your inattention will bring you to the attention of cyber attackers.

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  1. Lewis April 29, 2013
  2. Catherine Gibson April 29, 2013