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Why bother?

Another day and another story about a new cyber threat. It sounds worse each time - defenses that don't defend and employees that are just trying to do their job and allowing malware into the system, yet we don't seem to feel the pain. It's easy to get complacent, after all, how bad can it get?

Imagine the police discovering that a local gang managed to collect copies of keys to all the houses in the neighborhood and used them discreetly – a TV here, a bike there, a necklace somewhere else. It doesn't seem that bad. But one day, you suddenly find that the gang has taken over your house, they’ve changed the locks and you can't get in. As far-fetched as that seems, it's a very real possibility in the cyber world.

Some threats are just annoying - loss of a personal computer here, loss of some data there. But these minor annoyances mask much larger, more sinister and highly disruptive threats, including loss of control of your network, loss of access to your data and the inability to conduct your business. Sony lost their network for almost a month. Can it get worse than that? A truly disruptive threat could possibly knockout a company's IT capability so that devices like personal computers, network components like switches and accounts are rendered useless.

It's easy to live with the annoyances that come from cyber threats. The problem is that there are some deeply disruptive threats that can incapacitate a company for a considerable time.  Don't let that company be yours.  It's time to take action.