Author: Bridewell Consulting

Bridewell Strengthens Core Portfolio with Modern Workplace and Security Partnership

The advances in technology since then can now allow an attacker to achieve wide reaching consequences without having to be physically present at the target. The combination of cyber-attacks and physical attacks place even greater demand on security professionals to manage the risk. When the September 11 attacks were carried out, terror groups had a minimal online presence. Changes in technology have allowed these groups to embrace the anonymity the internet can provide to further their activity.

Since GDPR came in there have been a few changes in the cyber landscape and one significant change is the rise of ransomware. It is simply everywhere. When you first look you may be forgiven for thinking that it is particularly prevalent in the USA. And yes, that is partly true, but the reason for that is that by US law, a company must declare when they have had a data breach. Since 2002, the US Data Breach Notification Laws state that a company has 10 days to notify the authorities of a data breach. That, from a mapping point of view, is what makes the US look like a hotspot.

The construction industry may not appear to be an obvious target for cybercrime. The industry has an image of being a physical world industry with no connections to the digital one. If only that was true. The construction industry is being sought out by threat actors as the next easy target. In 2020 the average cost of the data breach within the construction industry was $4.99 million US dollars.

Malware is an ever-present but constantly changing threat in the cyber security world.