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If you are a large target many actors will be looking for your weaknesses. One bad actor will eventually find it, or just trick your employees to give them acce
by gibolt 8y ago
If you are a large target many actors will be looking for your weaknesses. One bad actor will eventually find it, or just trick your employees to give them access.
Companies should make a solid effort to prevent the possibility, but I'm torn on what ramifications should be.
- burtonator 8y ago> One bad actor will eventually find it, or just trick your employees to give them access. or do what the Russians do and use kompromat
- Something1234 8y agoWhat is "kompromat"?
- ealexhudson 8y agoIt's where you do your dirty laundry.
- genmon 8y agoBlackmail
- sk5t 8y agoIt's leverage over an individual--whether that's secrets that might be released, financial problems, or whatever.
- jldugger 8y agoMaterials for compromising someone. Blackmail material.
- neilv 8y agoIf you want a great fictional interpretation (I don't know how accurate it is): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(2013_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(2013_TV_series)
- darkarmani 8y ago> Companies should make a solid effort to prevent the possibility Isn't this what they do and then hedge the risk by covering their potential losses with insurance? If companies are not doing a good enough job with security, why does the cyber insurance not cost more? Priced properly, companies can choose between buying more coverage versus throwing more money at the "security problem."