The Austalian Bureau of Meteorology(BoM)has recently been victim of a massive hacker attack. Since the BoM is closely linked to multiple government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the attack has raised fears that potentially sensitive national security information may have been compromised.
Hacking doesn't happen only to large companies, although the headline is often hit by threats involving companies that have millions of users and a large amount of data.
The United Kingdom’s GCHQ in association with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, Cabinet Office and Department for Business Innovation and Skills, has re-issued their ’10 Steps to Cyber Security’ publication, offering updated guidance on the practical steps that organizations can take to improve the security of their networks and the information carried on th
A recent survey from Raytheon has take a look at young people's preparedness for cyber-security and their prospects for entering the industry as cyber-security professionals.
The aim of the survey is to understand the career interests and educational preparedness of millennials (ages 18 to 26) in 12 countries around the world.
According to the survey there is a very low awareness of the cyber-security profession:the majority of respondent, 62%, have never considered a job career in cyber security.
The growing global list of companies that have suffered major data breaches highlights the critical importance of cyber security. Google and McAfee estimate there are 2,000 cyber-attacks every day around the world, costing the global economy about €420 billion a year.
Yet more than two thirds of firms say they feel inadequately protected against increasingly sophisticated hackers looking to extort money through blackmail or steal data to sell on the black market. So what should businesses do to improve their security?
In the ISSE 2015 security conference held in Berlin Emma Philpott, IASME consortium chief executive, highlighted how the ICT industry must engage with SMEs to help them overcome cyber risks.
Engagement by the information security industry is necessary, she said, because SMEs typically do not bother about cyber security, for various reasons:
As technology benefits will keep on growing and evolving, cyber threats will too.
A strong cybersecurity policy for each government is needed in order to mitigate cyber risks and preventing all newly emerging trends.
“The level of sophistication of cyber attacks is increasing with at least three different ways of using the cyber weapon: cyber sabotage, cyber data theft, and cyber transfer of funds", says Giorgio Aprile, Head of Financial Institutions at Aon Italy, a leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage.
No digital business is immune and, potentially, no country either, even if the number cyber incidents reported is low
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