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Yes. It's called asymmetric warfare. It's very cheap to attack. And it's very expensive/resource intense to defend. Most probably "state actors" are taking adv
by shoto_io 5y ago
Yes. It's called asymmetric warfare. It's very cheap to attack. And it's very expensive/resource intense to defend.
Most probably "state actors" are taking advantage of this asymmetry to extort money and bind resources. It's a hidden "war" going on out there.
- citrin_ru 5y agoIt's depends. One can setup a web server with BSD/Linux and nginx - it would be cheap to create and maintain and very hard/expensive to attack. Balance is different when you have and a company with understaffed IT and all which usually goes along with this: software which is not updated for months if not years despite known vulnerabilities in it, legacy systems which are kept "just in case" because no-one knows what will be broken if they will be decommissioned, poorly managed credentials to external systems, and so on.