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When security issues shift from phishing and trojans to things that explode in the night, they tend to get a lot of attention. Recent military action involving the United States and Iran has led many to speculate about possible cybersecurity repercussions, but experts question whether the threat landscape has actually changed.
"In the cyber world, there's a war going on all the time," says Elad Ben-Meir, CEO of SCADAfence. "There are attempts of nation state-backed attacks happening all the time."
The threat landscape
"These players — Iran, China, and others — are always engaged," says Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP NS2. He says that threat actors are always probing and poking to see which opportunities are available and which data is visible. That constant probing in the cyber realm marks a clear difference from the situation Testoni remembers from his youth.
"When we go back to when I was growing up in the Cold War era, the battlefields were pretty defined," Testoni says, explaining, "It was sea, land, air, and then space over time. Now, the Internet is obviously one of those battlefields."
And for many executives and experts, businesses are on the battlefield whether they're a direct target or not. The question is not whether businesses are truly at risk to threats related to international sociopolitical affairs; but rather, what sort of risks? What does that overall threat landscape look like to corporations?
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