Tackling converged threats: building a security-positive environment
Steve Durbin · Network Security · 2011
The success of the Stuxnet worm, which exploits a number of attack vectors to spy on and disrupt the operation of industrial process control systems, highlights how hackers are increasingly turning to converged threats to defeat organisational defences ‘under the radar’. The consumerisation of IT and the rise of social networking in the workplace increase exposure to these threats. Addressing converged threats demands the development of a security-positive environment in which the responsibility for information security is devolved as locally as possible. The consumerisation of IT and the rise of social networking in the workplace increase exposure to these threats. Addressing converged threats demands the development of a security-positive environment in which the responsibility for information security is devolved as locally as possible, says Steve Durbin of the Information Security Forum (ISF).