You the CEO must be aware that your firm will be hacked. The more prominent your firm, the more likely it will happen.
Unless you want to turn the clock back and go to handwritten notes slipped into those brown ‘internal use only’ envelopes– with the holes punched in them with a little red string that wraps around a cardboard button, and dust off your IBM blue box with its punch cards, your firm’s data can be stolen. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. The world wide web’s convenience is its danger.
The chairman of the Clinton’s campaign changes his password because of an e-mail message telling him to and you don’t worry about the hundreds of employees on your server each with an access password as well as their personal handheld in their back pocket? Have any of your employees ever been trained on using the internet? Have you?Your job is to be alert and spend to constantly upgrade your systems so the hackers go to an easier target.
And, don’t you open the attachment form a visiting foreign delegation thanking you for your tour of your factory as part of a good will mission set up by some weanie at the State Department. The attachment can be a worm, and by opening it you just gave away all your value you have worked so hard for as the hackers empty your vaults overnight. It’s just as easy as that.
By the way, the hackers best protection is that most companies are too embarrassed to admit they got hacked so the hackers chew their way down the firm’s suppliers giving a competitor a compete turn-key operation. The only work your foreign competitor has left to do is to translate your operational manuals.
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