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“You are all high value targets”

Cyber security practitioner Patrick Wheeler listed a lot of scary incidents of cyber crime when giving his presentation at the Treasury 360 Copenhagen conference on Thursday.

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“You are all high value targets because you hold the keys to the money of your companies.”

Increasingly cyber attacks involve physical effects, exemplified by damages to a steel plant in Germany in 2014.

The weapons are downloadable

Various governments are usual suspects, but digital weapons have spread from state-sponsored projects to a broad public. Actually having a plan was recommended.

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Patrick Wheeler views possitively that there are projects seeking to re-educate people from various businesses into becoming cyber security experts.

“You actually need people who understand how your business works, as much as they understand cyber risks.”

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