Beating the bad guys; what is it criminals want, and how can you protect yourself?

Published: July 11th, 2016

As more and more of an organisation’s assets become digital, many companies are unwittingly providing a virtual supermarket of rich pickings for the bad guys. These can include: identities of staff and customers; accounts receivables; proprietary process details; access credentials to the systems of clients and suppliers; and so on.

All these things have a value: identities can be sold, payments can be redirected, processes can be copied or ‘adjusted’; credentials can be used to attack others in a supply chain; computers can be used in a ‘denial of service’ attach on others or to run phishing attacks – the list goes on.

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