Optically transparent: the rise of industrial espionage and state-sponsored hacking
Bernard Everett · Computer Fraud & Security · 2013
Business is increasingly dependent on interconnected and distributed systems, resulting in more complex infrastructures and increased security risks. Hacking layer 2 network infrastructures is becoming a favoured method of overcoming network security measures for national security. Surprisingly, this is also an area commonly viewed as secure and therefore overlooked by security specialists and auditors, typically concentrating on protecting areas further up the OSI stack. Hacking layer 2 network infrastructures is becoming a favoured method of overcoming network security measures for national security. And yet this is an area commonly viewed as secure. The revelations about US and other government surveillance programmes, and the increasing threat of cybercrime, should make organisations take another look at where security takes place in the network, argues Bernard Everett of InfoGuard.