We all carry a unique burden as part of our work and depending on the profession, we are privy to the details of something that others do not.
The burden of seeing the entire picture while the world goes about their business is something like having an unpaid bill that you don’t have the money to pay or experiencing infidelity in a relationship while not saying anything.
I imagine that is what those in our military intelligence community feel during a crisis the public may (or may not) know about.
Or the team at the Centers for Disease Control as the news of a pandemic becomes clear and, yes, 100% of those that work in cybersecurity feel that they can see how perilous the threat landscape is while most do not.
So, concludes the strange dark analogies part of today’s read — to make sure we have your focus.
As we enter October, we are in cybersecurity awareness month, and it is time to set the alarm and see things as the IT pro sees them. Hackers use our own tools against us (email, phone, text, etc.) as a threat delivery system every day.
Because of this, we continue to be victims of extremely complex and concurrently embarrassingly simple cyberattacks. The Solar Wind/Orion hack we will put in the complex category: Hackers embedded a fake update in the supply chain of a massive tech company and the impacts were felt across the nation from Homeland Security Investigations to the Department of State.
It is alleged that the hackers had access to key systems for months before it was sto ..
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