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Davenport and Randy Bean How developers can reduce AI’s impact on climate Eight essential leadership skills to improve in 2020 Five Tips for One-on-One Meetings Cyber Security Business Government Trust Risk Networks Fifty years of computer network design have enabled large companies to share information and applications with employees around the world, allowing them to stay in sync, grow their business, and create wealth. Networks are the foundation of globalization, and access to them is based on trust: if you have the right credentials, you are allowed in. But the age of trust is over. All new employees and every new digital device they bring with them increases.
The risk that bad actors outside (and inside) the organization will enter its network and then move from machine to machine to do mischief. the privileged intranet and treat every login as a potential threat. (Some companies, though few, already do this.) Most network vulnerabilities are caused by human error. People, no matter how well trained, leave their laptops in bathrooms and taxis, connect to unsecured Email Lists Database public connections in cafes or restaurants, visit websites and click on emails they shouldn't, and knowingly or unknowingly download files with Attachments of attachments. malicious software. Or they'll pick up a thumb drive in the parking lot and plug it into an authenticated machine.
That's how the U.S. Department of Defense was breached in 2016, when malware-infected flash drives were inserted into military laptops at bases in the Middle East. The malware worm spread through U.S. defense systems, sending back to its owner, whom DoD investigators believe is Russian. It took the Pentagon months to contain the worm, an incident that led to the creation of U.S. Cyber Command. The fundamental reason for this is that people are people, and as the workforce becomes more mobile and carries more self-configuring devices laptops, tablets, phones.
The risk that bad actors outside (and inside) the organization will enter its network and then move from machine to machine to do mischief. the privileged intranet and treat every login as a potential threat. (Some companies, though few, already do this.) Most network vulnerabilities are caused by human error. People, no matter how well trained, leave their laptops in bathrooms and taxis, connect to unsecured Email Lists Database public connections in cafes or restaurants, visit websites and click on emails they shouldn't, and knowingly or unknowingly download files with Attachments of attachments. malicious software. Or they'll pick up a thumb drive in the parking lot and plug it into an authenticated machine.
That's how the U.S. Department of Defense was breached in 2016, when malware-infected flash drives were inserted into military laptops at bases in the Middle East. The malware worm spread through U.S. defense systems, sending back to its owner, whom DoD investigators believe is Russian. It took the Pentagon months to contain the worm, an incident that led to the creation of U.S. Cyber Command. The fundamental reason for this is that people are people, and as the workforce becomes more mobile and carries more self-configuring devices laptops, tablets, phones.