Cyber attacks and hackers are a reality. We wake up, we grab coffee, and then we read about the latest cybersecurity breach. That statement may seem to trivialize the problem. But in an interconnected, always-on world, cyber crime by increasingly agile hackers is quite serious and seemingly inevitable.
In a quote in a recent article, Derek Manky, global security strategist at Fortinet, said about a half million attempted attacks occur every minute. How we use the data from these attempts to understand who these hackers are becomes extremely important, so that we can quickly respond to and even prevent cyber crime.
Vital targets in hackers’ crosshairs
Even more alarming, however, is the possibility of hackers taking control of critical infrastructure such as our power grid. Just recently, reports surfaced that the 23 December 2016 power outage in Ukraine resulted from a cyber attack on its power grid. That attack caused a six-hour outage for roughly 100,000 customers. And very recently, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s national infrastructure minister, announced that its Electric Authority was targeted by a severe cyber attack. Will the US be next?
Some pundits argue that hackers succeeding in an attack on the US power grid is highly probable, while others say it’s quite unlikely. Research, however, from US government experts revealed that in fiscal 2015 the nation’s critical infrastructure experienced a 20 percent increase in cyber incidents. And according to a 2015 survey of 20 different countries in the Americas, 53 percent of respondents said cyber attacks on critical infrastructure increased from the prior year. For the full article click here
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