Cyber Surveillance

The modern Cyber Security landscape is constantly changing and shifting. During the past few years, the rapidly growing use of cloud services, the disappearing perimeter between internal and external networks, and an incredible flood of new devices are challenging traditional methods of protecting everything digital. New threats and attack methods spring up every minute of the day, vulnerabilities are discovered at a rate that far outstrips the vendor’s ability to patch them before they are exploited. 33% of small businesses and 65% of large businesses reported a cyber breach or attack in the past 12 months. Overall, 1 in 4 of all businesses experienced a cyber attack or breach in the past year. Nine out of ten businesses don’t even have an incident management plan in the event of a cyber breach.

An enemy is anyone with the means, the motive & the opportunity Cyber Criminals: Cyber Criminals seek the immediate satisfaction of a financial payout. They typically target personal and financial information, hoping to exploit or sell the data for their own financial gain. Cyber Hacktivist: Hacktivists are activist hackers who are looking to influence political or social groups by pressuring businesses, governments and other entities to change their practices. By attacking organisations and stealing trade secrets or sensitive business information, including data relevant to key leaders, employees, and customers, Hacktivists take advantage of the data to disrupt normal business activities and put the focus and media attention on their own agenda. Cyber Espionage/ State Sponsored: This category of hacker is directly employed by an arm of a national government and they are typically very well-funded compared to small hacktivist groups and individual cyber criminals. These entities are motivated by economic, political, and military advantages. This means that there is potentially much greater damage if they are successful in accessing the data they seek.