Cyber Attack on Netflix, Amazon and Twitter - Expert Says It’s Only the Beginning

The recent denial of service attack (DDoS) attack on Netflix, Amazon and Twitter is sure to ruin the weekend entertainment for many people.But this signals a larger concern in cyber security, says Dr. Ray Klump, professor and director of the Master of Information Security program at Lewis University.Cyberattacks will continue to occur with regularity. It is becoming increasingly clear that securing data is like trying to keep water out with a screen. No matter how narrow you small you make the holes in the screen, there are always entry points, even if you can't readily see them.“What is needed is a different approach, one that acknowledges that you'll never have a system that is 100 percent secure, but that you can take steps to render what the hackers do find completely useless to them,” said He suggests ensuring all your sensitive data remain encrypted while at rest. If strong data encryption is applied to all sensitive data, and plaintext versions of it are never leaked to the outside, then, in the inevitability that a hacker manages to sneak through your enterprise's ultimately porous borders, what they'll find there is something they can't read. And if they can't read it, it's of no value to them.Visit http://www.lewisu.edu/experts/wordpress/index.php/faculty-experts/dr-ray-klump/ for more information about Dr. Ray Klump. Visit http://www.lewisu.edu/experts/wordpress/index.php/author/klumpra/ to read his blogs about computer security, computer science and math.Visit http://www.lewisu.edu/academics/comsci/ and http://cs.lewisu.edu for more information about the Computer Science program at Lewis University.