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The one cybersecurity threat everyone misses Kate Kelly <http://www.cnbc.com/id/37062546> Tuesday, 7 Oct 2014 Companies must be increasingly watchful of security failings at their smaller-sized vendors, a point of particular focus for cyberattacks, senior executives at the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference said Tuesday. "More and more as the large companies put their defenses in place, the adversaries are going toward their suppliers," said Sondra Barbour, *Lockheed Martin* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/LMT>'s head of information systems. "We really need to pay attention to this." After a spate of high-profile cybersecurity breaches at major companies like *Target* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/TGT> and, more recently, *Home Depot* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/HD> and *JPMorgan Chase* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/JPM>, the biggest players for the most part have strong protections to wall off their proprietary information, Barbour and others said. But smaller vendors who can't afford expensive security measures—and yet have links to some of their larger client's sensitive data—are now in the crosshairs of sophisticated hackers. "They're scanning thousands of businesses every single hour," said Denise Wood, chief information officer for *FedEx* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/FDX>. "They get into Fazio Bros. Air Conditioner Repair," she said, "and then they're in your network." <p>Tracking hackers in real time</p> <p>Insight to technology which can track hackers in real time, with Stephen Purpura, Context Relevant CEO, and former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Richard Clarke of Context Product Security. </p> "There's a vibrant black market for all these vulnerabilities," Wood said. *Read More**Hackers tried breaching JPM, others* <http://www.cnbc.com/id/102065370> Barbour, Wood and Jamie Miller, chief information officer of *General Electric* <http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/GE>, talked about their own policies of creating more and more elaborate cyberattack scenarios and running fire drills to problem-solve and communicate in case of a future hack. The lack of emphasis on such practice sessions was one of the problems that Target faced last year, Wood said. "They didn't include cyberattack in their crisis-response plans, and I think it's a common oversight," she said. Fedex, is taking note, she added, "We already had cyber in there, we're just drilling it much more." Target officials did not respond to a request for comment. *Read More**Hackers' attack struck systems at 10 companies* <http://www.cnbc.com/id/102059105> The executives also reflected on the problem of insider cybersecurity issues at a time when the disclosures made by *Edward Snowden* <http://www.cnbc.com/id/100822032>, a former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor who exposed U.S. government secrets to which he had access as a consultant, is top of mind. "A trusted insider can be just as damaging, or worse," Miller said. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcDJuMDdiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MTI4Njc5NjA-> - New Members <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJnbGtwcWowBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxNDEyODY3OTYw> 1 [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbnVscGZlBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQxMjg2Nzk2MA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
