The New New Internet asked a number of cybersecurity professionals what is the most pressing security issue in the field.
Here’s what Jeff Carr, CEO of Grey Logic, had to say:
“I don’t think hackers are going to waste time with anything that does not yield some type of profit. So, then it really becomes the question of what was targeted, ” said Carr. That is how Grey Logic looks at attribution when it comes to cyber espionage; what have we tied it to what was taken, who would have reason to have entered or accessed it; it has value to what party? Then you can start narrowing the field. I categorize it in three areas, you have state actors, and state sponsored actors, which would typically be skilled hackers who have some type of handshake arrangement or some other compensation with the state entity, but also at the same time create plausible deniability. Then you just have non-state actors.”
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