As more and more companies are falling victim to cyber-attacks, the concept of an incident, or breach, response plan has become very pertinent to corporate leaders. When Epsilon Data Management was hacked into last March, CEO Bryan Kennedy decided to notify all of its important customers within 48 hours of the breach, even though he […]
It was confirmed Saturday evening that aerospace giant Lockheed-Martin was hit by a “minimal” cyber-attack. According to Company and Pentagon officials, the cyber-attack was quickly detected, and no personnel, customer, or program data was compromised. As it is too early to tell the extent of the breach, one conclusion can be that due to the […]
A realization through revelation has finally emerged in the wake of a cyber-attack at Sony, Corp., by its CEO, Howard Stringer – technology alone cannot protect the most valued asset of a company, its mission-critical data. In a telephone interview posted by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Stringer stated that he could not guarantee the […]
Sony, Corporation, is in the process now of rebuilding its brand reputation after having to shut down its PlayStation Network on April 20, 2011. The shutdown was due to hackers infiltrating its network and obtaining the names, addresses, birth dates, and possibly credit card numbers of over 100 million users. Prior to the April 20th incident, […]