Our cybersecurity 'industry best practices' keep allowing breaches
The fact that the Colonial Pipeline is slowly getting back online and replenishing the gas supply in the Southeastern United States does not diminish the financial loss and sense of vulnerability that citizens from Florida to Virginia faced last week, and still are.
The hacking at Colonial Pipeline is the latest in a series of breaches that have impacted a long-and-growing list of other businesses — all ambushed by some individual or group that managed to hack through cyber security “industry best practices.”
It is only getting worse. Reports surface daily about new incidents involving prominent health care providers, government agencies or retailers hit by hackers — thus releasing millions or billions of pieces of sensitive information all over the dark web.
Guarding over these critical resources, health care providers and government agencies are a veritable army of information security professionals.
