The majority of hackers are attracted by discovered vulnerabilities in an organisation’s networks rather the value of any data assets held, according to a Malaysia-based ethical hacker who acts as a security consultant to the financial services sector in Malaysia.
LE Global Services (LGMS) executive director and senior IT security consultant Fong Choong Fook told Computerworld Malaysia in an exclusive interview that in his experience targeted cyber threats were now spreading out from financial services to many other sectors.
Companies are potential targets irrespective of the industry they are in, said Fong. “Many companies, feel secure in not being in ‘lucrative’ fields such as finance or banking, and they feel content to put in place basic ground-level defences and hope to get by. That alone is not enough.”
Citing a Gartner report, Fong said that 75 percent of attacks today occur at the application level. “Despite the common use of defences such as web application firewalls and intrusion prevention and detection systems, hackers still pose a serious liability and not often stopped or detected.” For the full article click here
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