The industries most affected by island hopping attacks are finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
The term ‘island hopping’ is not originally technological term – it comes from the military strategy. More precisely, the term comes from the World War II, from the strategy the US military used to get to mainland Japan via islands, such as Hawaii, Marshall Islands and Guam, to end the war.
The cybersecurity issues of the Cloud, Edge and IoT trichotomy are inevitably related to all of these complementary technologies.
Cloud Computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services without direct active management by the user. These services range from applications to storage and processing power obtained from the remote data centres and available large number fo users over the Internet.
Email is one of the primary ways we communicate and is an almost universal technology, making it perfect for attackers to reach their victims. Outgoing emails can be even more hazardous than incoming ones.
Running and securing business in the cyber environment in these pandemic and economic crisis times can be hard. The rapid progression of cyber threats can be attributed to technical failures but even more to human errors. The complexity of cybersecurity risk and cost involved continue to increase.
A number of studies confirmed that people often have a tendency to find ways to work around organisational cybersecurity policies. This is actually not something that they do on purpose but rather based on their habits. In other words, this behaviour is an effect of bad habituation.
Harriet Downs had it all: a great job, a loving husband, and two beautiful children. She was an up-and-coming programmer at Goldman Sachs for the company’s AI trading bots, on the fast track to management. She, her husband, Steve and the kids had just moved into a beautiful new house in Sevenoaks. Life was good.
An endless maze of cybersecurity is, however, not a simple choice between technology tools. Hence, after discussing the above dilemma of interest to common folks, we continue with teasing cybersecurity professionals and policymakers with fitting it in the cybersecurity doctrines.
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