IT’ a scary place out there in the cyber world and as we were researching our special report on cybersecurity it only got scarier.
As the acting director of the Government Communications Security Bureau, Una Jagose, said in a recent speech, these cyber threats stem from the rapidly changing nature of the internet, which was not designed with security in mind.
“The more we are connected to and holding data on internet facing systems, the greater our vulnerability to attack. The scale and pace of growth is almost unimaginable, and means vulnerabilities are constantly being introduced, protected against, and reintroduced and rediscovered…”
And what struck me most too was that the new generation of cyber risk is more complex: future threats will come from intellectual property theft, cyber extortion and the impact of…
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NZBusiness+Management (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2015