Yes, you'll get hacked! When and how?
Your
army is deployed on the perimeter walls, armed and ready. Your walls
are high and solid and a deep trench defends them. All access points are
fiercely defended and strictly monitored. The monsters are out there,
getting ready to attack and destroy and you know there will be no
prisoners..
You’re confident that your walls will hold long enough for backup troops to join the party and sweep the attackers away. Sadly a wicked insider told to your enemies about a vulnerability in your walls, a tunnel running below the main wall, the existence of which had been long forgotten.
The bad guys place explosive charges in there and, when the battle reaches its peak, a kamikaze rushes towards the tunnel handing a torch to blast them. You suddenly got what your enemies wanted to do, but too late. The kamikaze dies, hit by your arrows, but he can still get his dirty job done.
Banngggg!!!! The bad guys are in!
How many of you visualize a castle surrounded by a trench and layers of walls when you think of information security? Well, I got a bad news for you: this concept is outdated and you’ll get hacked sooner or later, just like the defendants in the Helm’s Deep battle. Static defensive lines are ineffective, like history has widely proven (think of the French Maginot Line, for example).
What’s important today isn’t only to keep the bad guys out, but also to make sure that, might they be able to break in, they make as least harm as possible. Some companies had to call quits because of a major security breach but, luckily, there are methods to minimize the negative consequences of an intrusion.
You’re confident that your walls will hold long enough for backup troops to join the party and sweep the attackers away. Sadly a wicked insider told to your enemies about a vulnerability in your walls, a tunnel running below the main wall, the existence of which had been long forgotten.
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The bad guys place explosive charges in there and, when the battle reaches its peak, a kamikaze rushes towards the tunnel handing a torch to blast them. You suddenly got what your enemies wanted to do, but too late. The kamikaze dies, hit by your arrows, but he can still get his dirty job done.
Banngggg!!!! The bad guys are in!
How many of you visualize a castle surrounded by a trench and layers of walls when you think of information security? Well, I got a bad news for you: this concept is outdated and you’ll get hacked sooner or later, just like the defendants in the Helm’s Deep battle. Static defensive lines are ineffective, like history has widely proven (think of the French Maginot Line, for example).
What’s important today isn’t only to keep the bad guys out, but also to make sure that, might they be able to break in, they make as least harm as possible. Some companies had to call quits because of a major security breach but, luckily, there are methods to minimize the negative consequences of an intrusion.
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