Corporate
Jul. 13, 2017
Asymmetry and the end of optimism-based cybersecurity
It has become ever clearer that no technology is enough to defeat a determined hacker. The increasing sophistication of social engineering techniques to trick hapless victims into clicking on innocent-appearing links makes clear that successful deployment of the “human factor” is crucial if an organization has any hope of creating a defensible cyber environment.
Michael A. Gold
Partner
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
1900 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles , CA 90067
Email: MGold@jmbm.com
Michael is co-chair of the firm's Cybersecurity and Privacy Group. The group counsels companies in all industries regarding compliance with state, federal and international privacy laws and regulations, establishing corporate governance frameworks and controls to establish effective information security, and in connection with security incidents and data breaches.
The massive malware attack on the prominent international law firm DLA Piper and many other major organizations on June 27 was a worst-case scenario for the victims and their clients and customers. What many thought was a locker virus -- holding data for ransom -- may turn out to have been a wiper virus. In other words, paying ransom doesn't get the data back; rather, the data is permanently destroyed or encrypted.
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