Hack Yourself Before Someone Else Does

What do Sony, Yahoo, Target, San Francisco’s Muni, presidential elections in two different countries, Orange is the New Black, and Bangladesh Bank have in common? Hacked. Typically, by finding a weak human link on the corporate chain who will click a link in an infected email. Hackers have quickly moved beyond just catch and release of data. The more lucrative pattern is to lock the data up for ransom.

Historically, cybersecurity conversations were closed conversations for experts at gatherings like RSA or Defcon. But I’m seeing a move to educate a wider audience. Last week I attended a seminar to educate C-suite execs about making cybersecurity a corporate priority. Then I hopped a plane to New Orleans for the Collision Conference. Even though Collision is billed as a conference for the startup community, there was a clear focus on thinking about data safety. This megaphone effect sends a powerful message that wherever you sit in the Internet world, cybersecurity is everyone’s business. And the bottom line is you may want to learn to hack yourself before you get hacked.

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