Is your company’s data under surveillance by foreign spybots looking for any competitive advantages or weaknesses they can exploit? This might sound farfetched, but such electronic espionage is real. It’s an insidious security threat that’s a lot more common than you probably realize.
As an IT or security executive, determining whether your organization is under attack via this seemingly undetectable threat — and putting in place adequate technology and procedural safeguards — should be a high priority. The stakes are too high to ignore the problem.
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Security experts believe that a growing number of companies are being spied upon electronically by sources from other countries, most notably China. What makes these attacks so troublesome is that their techniques are often undetectable by the usual security tools. Electronic spies try to get into systems without causing disruptions, so they can quietly gather information over a period of time.
via The quiet threat: Cyber spies are already in your systems – Computerworld.
