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What keeps bank executive Mark Brown up at night is the threat of intruders not the street-level kind, but cybercrime.
Browns job as information security officer for Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners is to protect the bank and its clients from increasingly sophisticated, increasingly organized syndicates of cyber criminals whose collective hacking exploits have made 2011 one of the worst years for cybercrime in history.
From a security perspective, the headline you never want to see is that Pinnacles network was breached, Brown said. Were doing everything we can to prevent those headlines.
Brown was among 1,500 of the nations chief corporate and government cyber-security experts who gathered in Nashville this week for the GFIRST cyber threat conference an annual event that has tripled in size in the past five years.
Its organized by the Department of Homeland Securitys U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team the division in charge of responding to cyber-attacks on the nations nonmilitary networks.
This year, those attacks have been notably bold and spectacular. Hackers have successfully targeted Lockheed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PBS and Sony.
In some instances, the attacks appeared to have inflicted minimal damage such as a recent attack on the state of Tennessees computer systems by so-called hacktivists unhappy with recent legislation penalizing posting of offensive images online. State officials reported only already-publicly information was retrieved.
In other instances, the damage has been more far-reaching. For the complete story click here: Many businesses ignore cyber threats despite risks
Cybercrime will only continue to evolve and worsethe bad guys are not walking away while they can still earn an easy buck. The time to proof up your employees against cybercrime is now; the means is with Internet security awareness training. Take a free Internet phishing security test!
Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4
[/caption]What keeps bank executive Mark Brown up at night is the threat of intruders not the street-level kind, but cybercrime.
Browns job as information security officer for Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners is to protect the bank and its clients from increasingly sophisticated, increasingly organized syndicates of cyber criminals whose collective hacking exploits have made 2011 one of the worst years for cybercrime in history.
From a security perspective, the headline you never want to see is that Pinnacles network was breached, Brown said. Were doing everything we can to prevent those headlines.
Brown was among 1,500 of the nations chief corporate and government cyber-security experts who gathered in Nashville this week for the GFIRST cyber threat conference an annual event that has tripled in size in the past five years.
Its organized by the Department of Homeland Securitys U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team the division in charge of responding to cyber-attacks on the nations nonmilitary networks.
This year, those attacks have been notably bold and spectacular. Hackers have successfully targeted Lockheed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PBS and Sony.
In some instances, the attacks appeared to have inflicted minimal damage such as a recent attack on the state of Tennessees computer systems by so-called hacktivists unhappy with recent legislation penalizing posting of offensive images online. State officials reported only already-publicly information was retrieved.
In other instances, the damage has been more far-reaching. For the complete story click here: Many businesses ignore cyber threats despite risks
Cybercrime will only continue to evolve and worsethe bad guys are not walking away while they can still earn an easy buck. The time to proof up your employees against cybercrime is now; the means is with Internet security awareness training. Take a free Internet phishing security test!
Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4
