Even The Best Cybersecurity Doesn't Try To Stop Every Single Attack On Its Systems. by mindhunter

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Even The Best Cybersecurity Doesn't Try To Stop Every Single Attack On Its Systems.
# I used to discuss cybersecurity with lots of executives every year in my last role at Nortel, and here is the biggest mistake they all made.

![]( http://media.coindesk.com/uploads/2016/10/hacker-computer-e1477604509763.jpg)

## They treated cybersecurity as an IT department issue only to solve, and didn't see it as an enterprise-wide solution.

Like in chess, the endgame of any large enterprise is to make sure that they prevent something bad from happening. Many spend and waste millions of dollars on weak attempts to build a defence wall that cannot be breached. 

But I always say, if it can be man made it can be man broken. It cannot protect the data once it leaves your network either. Clients or customers may breach that data once it leaves your premises onto the WAN.

I always say it's more important to focus on 2 key issues: Work out and protect those assets which the company sees as its crown jewels and how to limit the damage should there be any kind of data breach.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/steemimgimgs/2016/10/31/lockda4f0.jpg)

## How to choose which areas to protect.

We now live in a world of the Internet of Things (IoT) where many more devices are connected to the internet than ever before - these include phones, appliances, alarm systems etc. This is the world of Big Data whether we know about it or not. Enterprise must now realise that companies entrusted with this data are no longer IT risks, but more of a strategic business risk of the highest order.

Most companies take the peanut butter approach i.e. they spread cybersecurity evenly across the corporatation.

I have stressed to many companies that this is the wrong approach. An cyber risk managment strategy must start with focusing on the business factors that drive revenue and profitability, and must end with the technological infrastructure itself. 

This is the opposite of the traditional method of modus operandi, but it's more deadly effective.

**Cybersecurity investments and assets can never be treated equally, as some are simply more important that others. When corporations finally realise this, the bottom line shall improve no end.**

@mindhunter
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@mindhunter ·
Mmmmm....bring out the peanut butter for the UK :( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37821867
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@mindhunter ·
(yet more wasted tax £'s!! Like the national debt is not big enough at £1.5 trillion!)
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@thecentreofitall ·
Nortel collapsed as its premises were littered with Chinese bugs and the company was too slow to embrace change as its R&D choked and failed.
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@mindhunter ·
Their routers were also full of Chinese malware too. Emails were compromised all the way to the v.top! A sad demise indeed.
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@mindhunter · (edited)
(Hack the R&D - take the intellectual property - clone it - kill all your competitors with it!)
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@doitvoluntarily ·
well that's new...
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@mindhunter · (edited)
Thanks for passing by @doitvoluntarily. No post I won't turn my hand too ;)
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@mindhunter ·
I might do one on the larger moths of Southern Poland next ;)
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@seirffejpilihp ·
Assange said the DNC server had holes all over it like a rash, hence it was so easy to steal all those emails from Clinton et al.
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@mindhunter ·
I believe Wikileaks has Clinton's 33,000 emails ready on ice to attack her in the final furlong!
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@mindhunter ·
At the moment he is just taunting here before the final assault: http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/18693/Assange-Next-WikiLeaks-batch-will-lead-to-Hillary-Clinton%E2%80%99s-arrest
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