Imagine my surprise when I was asked, “Did you hear about the New Yorker Magazine? Their website was hacked yesterday!” As a cybersecurity professional, I’m accustomed to hearing about hackers and data breaches – just not from my barber. Cyber attacks, hacks and breaches are so common these days that they have become a topic of casual conversation. Sadly, the intruders seem to be winning, in many cases, because organizations do not detect cyber intrusions fast enough.
Speaking to CBS’s “60 Minutes” in October 2014, James Comey, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, asserted that “There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked by the Chinese.”