As security breach events clog news cycles, businesses can only hope to find silver bullets in protective cybersecurity services.

Is it true that regardless of what you do to protect your company’s valuable data, your systems will STILL be hacked?

According to Rob Kleeger, Founder of the Digital4nx Group who gave a recent interview to ROI-NJ News, the answer is YES, it’s only a matter of time before it happens to your business.
In his view, preparing for hacker assaults doesn’t involve just going out to purchase the most advanced suite of cybersecurity products on the market. The biggest companies have tried that, he said.
“And, yet, those companies, with all their resources, are still getting breached and are in the front-page headlines all the time,” he said. “All the money in the world doesn’t solve the problem.”

Kleeger was a first responder during the 2011 Sony breach, during which the “hacktivist” group Anonymous announced its intent to go after the business in response to a lawsuit against George Hotz, a New Jersey native who gained notoriety for reverse-engineering the PlayStation 3 gaming system.

“That’s a perfect example, Sony banged their chest and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got 600 security engineers,’” he said. “When they got a letter from the Anonymous organization standing behind this person’s cause and threatening to bring Sony’s websites down. … Sony gave them the bird, and (Sony was) shut down two days later.”

The bottom line is this: Those that deal with these threats on a daily basis want business leaders to think about what to do when — not if — they’re the next victims on the hacker hit list.

“Most business leaders are thinking about this as a technical issue,” he said. “It’s not simply technical. At the end of the day, you have to understand what it is you want to protect and legal obligations you’ll have when you’re breached.”

No doubt influenced by his detective-like business approach, Kleeger is a fan of companies doing an investigation of their own systems and the kind of data they have before attacks happen.

And, even if hackers are hard to stop, having some level of cybersecurity protection is better than the alternative. But these are most effective when you know what specifically needs protecting, Kleeger said.

“Because, if an attacker finds themselves on your network but can’t get to the crown jewels, they’re going to leave empty-handed or just go after a lesser target,” he said.

Experts say part of why there’s no perfect failsafe to be found is the amount of security breaches caused by exploiting human behavior, not secured computer systems.

Check out his interview at the link below:

ROI News Interview with Rob Kleeger, Founder of Digital4nx Group

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Digital4nx Group Interviewed in ROI-NJ Why You CAN’T Avoid Being Hacked

As security breach events clog news cycles, businesses can only hope to find silver bullets in protective cybersecurity services.

The bottom line is this: Those that deal with these threats on a daily basis want business leaders to think about what to do when — not if — they’re the next victims on the hacker hit list.

“Most business leaders are thinking about this as a technical issue,” he said. “It’s not simply technical. At the end of the day, you have to understand what it is you want to protect and legal obligations you’ll have when you’re breached.”