Avoiding Becoming the Next To Be Cyber Attack

Avoiding Becoming the Next To Be Cyber Attack

On July 30, hackers breached HBO’s (Home Box Office) servers which is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. and demanded nearly $6 million in ransom to stop the leak of over 1.5 terabytes of stolen data. Hacked files included details on HBO’s internal network and administrator passwords, draft scripts from five Game of Thrones episodes and over 30,000 emails from its vice president of film. Just one week later, a different hacker group from India leaked full episodes of Game of Thrones by working through insiders at Star India, a regional HBO carrier.

Shortly after the Star India incident, hacker group OurMine took over HBO’s Twitter account in a very public display of credential theft. Security experts suspect OurMine used spearphishing methods to obtain access to the HBO account. As more and more companies move to a digital business environment, a clear need for workforce information security training and awareness has emerged.

Security awareness training platform proactively fights cyber attacks by training all levels of employees on cyber security. We’ve found that 29 percent of employees across industries fall victim to phishing, making hacks like the HBO incident easy for cyber criminals. By educating the workforce on cyber threats, they can be mobilized as the last line of defense against cyber attacks. Just recently the NHS (National Health Service), the National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system in the United Kingdom. The organization, funded primarily by taxation, provides free or low-cost healthcare to all legal residents of the U.K. Medications are subsidized as well and prescriptions may be free when situations warrant was badly affected by the Ransonware cyber attack, so it is expedient to take the following precautious measures below to avert such damages

2 ways you can avoid becoming the to be Attacked:

1.     Start Preparing Now for Security Training
Most CTOs (Chief Technical Officer) and CIOs (Chief Information Officer) understand the need for workforce security training, but often have difficulty getting executive buy in, setting budget and implementing organization-wide security policies. There is a need to help build business cases for training, provide budgeting guidance and formulate a training plan for the widely varying needs of your company.

2.     Transform Your Culture: Creating a Culture of Security Awareness
Most cultural shifts in business occur due to external pressures such as changing workforce demographics, safety concerns and health issues. With security breaches in the news nearly every day, a culture of security awareness must be adopted by organizations of all types. With creating the security awareness culture, this will help the shift in priorities and transform culture by providing effective training with measurable results.