Dark Reading: How NOT To Be The Next Sony: Defending Against Destructive Attacks

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When an attacker wants nothing more than to bring ruin upon your business, you can't treat them like just any other criminal.

1/8/2015
By Sara Peters

You know to include the threat of financially motivated cybercriminals in your risk profile. Done. But what about the ones who don't want money? The ones who just want to hurt you. How do you defend against and recover from attackers whose sole goal is to destroy?

Destructive attacks -- like the one at Sony Pictures Entertainment -- are personal. They're done by someone with a grudge: a disgruntled insider, an outraged hacktivist, a nation that sees the target as an enemy of the state.

Destructive attacks are also, in many ways, easier to do.

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