Cyber security threats are evolving

THREATS TO CYBER SECURITY are evolving and businesses need to learn from attacks by Lulzsec and Anonymous, speakers said at a cyber security panel discussion today.
At a Westminister Eforum, Defence Select Committee member Julian Brazier told the audience that "very few people understand the sheer scale and spectrum of the threat we face".
Andy Dancer, CTO at Trend Micro explained that the nature of cyber threats is changing, and cyber attacks are targeting individuals, rather than an entire company at once.
He said, "Previously threats went out to the targets [attackers] could see. Now its point of entry and then focus on machines on the inside, impersonate the user if I can't get access to their machine. It's not an outbreak that hits all machines one at a time, it's an individual that slowly takes over."
He added, "From the point of entry to compromise, it happens very quickly. It's very difficult to keep up with patching because you can't apply patches quickly enough. It often takes weeks for patches to be applied but just hours to compromise a system."

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