Tech leaders: Is your biggest threat North Korea or your own board?

If you're a tech boss looking to increase your profile, the one sure-fire way to make the headlines is to have a major security breach on your watch. Just ask some of the senior techies who used to work at the DWP, Sony, Target, and...well, you get the picture. That’s why our May Roundtable will be considering: The world in …

[Anonymous Coward]

> Less PCs, more devices, even more security threats

"Fewer PCs" surely?

[Anonymous Coward]

At least with PCs you have a chance of identifying nasties with freely available software. A lot of IoT stuff comes with zero thought to security and in many cases you'd need diagnostic kit (and the knowledge to drive it) to even tell you've been compromised. Let alone updating/applying patches, even if that's possible.

[Christian Berger]

"At least with PCs you have a chance of identifying nasties with freely available software."

Well actually with PCs you can get much further ahead. You can harden your systems by throwing out features you don't need. If you have moderately smart people in your IT, you can control it to a very fine degree while still not limiting productivity in any noticable ways.

[David Pollard]

This sort of thing never would have happened when the moderatrix was around.

[Stevie]

Bah!

Tech leaders: Is your biggest threat North Korea or your own board?

Trick question! It's both.

[ecofeco]

Double trick question: it turns out most of the hacking traffic in the world comes from China followed by the US.

But on a day to day basis, it's upper management that cause the most problems.

[Anonymous Coward]

In the days before the internet it was reckoned that most commercial espionage in the IT industry was by company executives. They were the only ones who had access to all the strategic and tactical information in their current company. They could pass it to a competitor either intentionally or unintentionally through the old boys network.

There was one other class of industrial spies - the cleaners who were largely below the security radar.

[7]

Correct.

And don't call them surely.

[Master Rod]

Those in charge who want BYOD(Bring Your Own Device). No way to secure them all.