Everything from systems and apps and what-have-you that may not be perfectly compatible being jury-rigged together, and in the process, holes get left behind that the bad guys can then exploit. I think what you see is companies just continually having their systems compromised because a lot of the same mistakes end up getting made. But making investments for security doesn't necessarily mean you've put in a system that is adequate security. At the same time, you have companies that, they take their compliance seriously but they take the check-box part of it seriously.Īn assessor comes in, tells them what they need to do, and their overriding goal is to check off all those boxes. But what you see is attackers being very motivated because they've been successful just enough to have monetary gain from launching these types of attacks.

What's going on?īill Brenner: Well, from the perspective of having written about hundreds upon hundreds of data breaches and attack techniques, I'm not sure that I feel that the world we are in is any worse than it was, say, five years ago. We're seeing attacks growing in size and frequency and even sophistication. Jeff Williams: We just saw the USPS got hacked this morning for 800,000 employees' accounts. The following is a brief excerpt of our interview: Bill also recently gave a podcast about websites getting hacked by third-party services and widgets and we discuss what is happening in this attack vector. I get Bill's opinion what's going on with attacks today growing in size, frequency and even sophistication.

In the interview, we discuss why Akamai even has a manager for editorial in the security group. According to Bill, he fights the never-ending battle against cyber-evil one article at a time. Prior to that, he was the managing editor for CSO Online and CSO Magazine. He's the Senior Program Manager for Editorial in the Information Security Group at Akamai. For this interview, we're joined by Bill Brenner.

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