Adding Computer & Cyber Crime Security
To the Next Board Meeting Is Too late!
by Nick Ashton, CEO/CTO, CommSmart Global Group of Companies
Talk is
cheap and tabling the potential collapse of your corporation is nonsense!
Do CEO’s,
COO’s, CFO’s and Board Members know what goes on in a company? Do they understand the departments and the
inter-connectivity?
It does not
seem so from the actions of the largest companies in the world! Being a LEADER, means just that! LEADERSHIP!
Cyber security
is of the utmost importance. Europe held an exercise on how to protect us from Cyber crime.
Their first
mistake was to advertise it!
The
exercise, was called Cyber Europe 2014, was the largest and most complex ever
enacted, involving 200 organizations and 400 cybersecurity professionals from
both the European Union and beyond.
It was questioned whether the law enforcement agencies taking part in the drill should
be involved in safeguarding online security, in the wake of American
whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations of online spying by western
governments.
"The
main concern is national governments' reluctance to cooperate," said
Professor Bart Preneel, an information security expert from the Catholic
University of Leuven, in Belgium.
"You
can carry out all of the exercises you want, but cybersecurity really comes
down to your ability to monitor, and for that, national agencies need to speak
to each other all the time," Preneel said.
The
Crete-based office coordinating the EU's cybersecurity, the European Union
Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), calls itself a "body
of expertise" and cannot force national agencies to share information.
As with
most aspects of policing and national security, the EU's 28 members have
traditionally been reluctant to hand over powers to a central organization,
even when -- as in the case of online attacks -- national borders are almost
irrelevant.
Sorry, it
was doomed from the outset!
You must
protect yourselves and that means being ahead of the curve, not in a reactive
mode all the time. IT Departments and
leadership is understaffed, underfunded and misunderstood by corporate
leadership. Also so far behind in their
knowledge as they no time for catch-up
on issues and solutions of today, tomorrow and in the future.
Just like
street fighting and attacking terrorist insurgency, it is hand to hand combat
and having to be right all the time.
Yes, 100% right is the mantra, as the cyber-terrorists only have to be
right once, to wreck your world!
The Bangkok Post stated, “Cyberattacks occur
when the computer information systems of individuals, organizations or
infrastructure are targeted, whether by criminals, terrorists or even states
with an interest in disrupting computer networks.
The EU
estimates that over recent years there has been an increase in the frequency
and magnitude of cybercrime and that the attacks go beyond national borders,
while the smaller-scale spreading of software viruses is also an increasingly
complex problem.
And with
Europe's supply of gas from Russia focusing attention on energy security, the
highly computerized "smart" energy grids which transport and manage
energy in the EU are also seen as vulnerable.
Yet the
view from Brussels is that the member states' reluctance to work together on
cyber security amounts to "recklessness", with one EU source saying
national governments were "happy to put their citizens and economy at risk
rather than coordinate across the EU."
"The
problem is nation states wanting to fight cybercrime individually, even when
cybercrime does not attack at that level," Wootton says, arguing that
national law enforcement agencies often lack the required resources.
"So it
is good to look at this at the European level, but what power does ENISA have?
What can they force countries to do?"
Eurostat
figures show that, by January 2012, only 26 percent of EU enterprises had a
formally defined information technology security plan in place.
One
industry insider said the view in Brussels is that EU cybersecurity was
"like teenage sex: everyone says they are doing it but not that many
actually are."
Really!
So are you
carrying a computer condom in your pocket?
I doubt it and this is not just a European issue, it is worldwide.
Learn that there are companies who can assist in your cyber protection
and talk to us, before you become the next Target!
WE are in the NOW and
KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…
Email: info@commsmart-global.com
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