That's always a problem with risk management. DHagar. Risk is essentially forward-looking: what are the chances of something happening...? But in all walks of life, we find ourselves saying, wow, that was a really big risk we overlooked there.
Great insights, Kim. Your predictions suggest that the professionals may not have even been discovered, let alone deterred!
Risk is always what we don't know. I believe that we have not begun to understand the true risks that exist yet; hopefully the discoveries will pre-empt major events.
I was talking about the pranksters -- Anonymous, LulzSec, etc. It became clear last year that "members" of the groups would inform on other "members" rather than serve jail sentences. The result: plenty of arrests. Going to jail for pranks isn't attractive.
Professional cybercrime is a whole different deal.
I certainly think the main threats now come from agents working for states. The pranksters have suffered heavily from law enforcement clamp downs. Cyber thieves can still pick low-hanging fruit without launching complex attacks.
@aum007 - I wouldn't be suprised if banks and government agencies will see an all out onslaught in the first half of 2013. Also, don't be suprised to see some of your favoriate cloud companies get their share of attacks and breaches in the first half of the year as well.
I don't think its gonna be one of the Big E-commerce vendors(who are known to provide excellent Security throughout like amazon);which will be hit in 2013.
After all,their entire Bread and Butter depends on the Online world.
The Stronger possibility is we see Breaches amongst firms who have an Online Business but its not key to the way they do Business.
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