Many companies are in denial about cyber attacks, but they need to accept that they are likely to be targets, that everything is hackable and that they need to act accordingly, says security expert Menny Barzilay
According to Menny Barzilay, CEO and cyber security strategist at FortyTwo , businesses need to accept that everything is hackable.
“Truly accepting and understanding that everything is hackable is the first and most important step towards a creating a super effective cyber security strategy,” he told Cybercon 2017 in Plymouth.
The next step, he said, is to assess an organisation’s ability to respond to a cyber attack because prevention alone is not enough.
“We have to rebalance between prevention and detection because, although we cannot stop 100% of the attackers, we can detect them.
