Could What Happened to Sony Happen to Us?
Walter Houser · IT Professional · 2015
Until we establish professional standards of practice for cybersecurity, Internet commerce will be punctuated by calamities like the Sony exploit of 2014. We continue to put a growing percentage of our assets online, providing organized vandals, criminals, and terrorists with lucrative targets such as Sony Pictures Entertainment. As the facts of Sony's experience become public, we are seeing important lessons for the Internet enterprise and notable implications for the discipline of security engineering.