Interesting article. We all know they exist from the Pentagon to the Electric Grids to Organized crime holding medical records hostage. It is obvious that the current methodology is ineffective in securing our data and we just keep netcentric’ing more and more without taking security into account. Sounds like more of the same old Business as Usual (BaU) of Risk Management instead of an actual solution.

Well…..
When the US Government will start looking to its allies for assistance we have a system that can protect organization much better than any other know technologies.
We are waiting….

I would like to see the statistics on the country of origin for these attacks. I realize that many, if not most are performed by ‘bots, but there has to be some finger-prints on these attacks.

But the $100 million spent on repairing damage is a concern. It suggests that attacks are too often successful. Are our defenses that bad? Passwords too easy to guess?

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