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> statistically, the probability of successful attacks increases with the size of the company I work in the cyber insurance industry. This is not true.

• kreativ_py 5y ago
  These are mostly social engineering attacks. As employees headcount increases, so does attack vectors.
• Closi 5y ago
  > I work in the cyber insurance industry. This is not true. Really? I mean our small company has never had our codebase breached and released by hackers, while Microsoft and their subsidiaries have had this happen several times. Similarly Twitch, Github, Valve... all have suffered source code breaches similar to the article. None of the small companies I have ever worked for have had this issue, so it does seem that large tech companies have a higher probability of having their codebase successfully leaked. We are also talking about Microsoft, which is probably amongst the top companies that are targeted the most by hackers across the world (mainly because of the impact when they are breached, rather than the ease of breach). I assume when OP talks about the likelihood of a successful breach, they don't mean the success % of a breach, they mean the total number of successful breaches. When I worked at a big company the security team seemed to be putting out small fires all the time with targeted phishing attacks and so many laptops that could have missed an update, virtual machines getting ransomware e.t.c., and now I work for a smaller company and look after their IT as part of my role we have only had 1-2 fairly small issues across the last year.