A conversation with TAC President Peter Schay, and TAC Founder Alan Guibord, a frequent speaker on IT leadership, organizational strategy, future trends in IT, and cybersecurity.
Unfortunately, employees tend to forget or disregard policies, especially mobile security policies, so they may engage in risky behavior without thinking about it. They’re generally unaware of the potential risks, and often treat their mobile device like their company PC, assuming it’s secured by IT.
How could Home Depot and Neiman Marcus fall into the same trap that Target did months earlier? Could it be that this is not considered material enough to spend money on both the technology (to prevent & detect data losses) and the human behavioral changes needed to minimize incidents?
“You don’t know when they were there, when they left, what they took, and what they left behind”. And until you acknowledge that, you will leave gaps in your defenses or your monitoring that the bad guys will easily exploit.
Should the prevalence of cyber security stories worry your company or you personally? You bet it should! The scary thing is that even with all of the media attention, there are thousands of breaches taking place daily that do not show up in the news. In many cases the hacked companies and individuals don’t even know they’ve been compromised!
I’m sure that you’ve heard today’s news about the NSA’s work to break encryption and gain access to corporate and individual data. Not that you have anything to hide, but if the NSA can get to your data, odds are that soon there will be hackers out there that will be able to, and in some cases, depending on your current security protocols, may already have.