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Stonesoft Comments On MOD Security Breach
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Stonesoft Networks
: 07 May, 2012 (Technical Article) |
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Highly Security Systems in Military Organisations could be successful targets for Advanced Evasion Techniques says Stonesoft |
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The MoD has admitted that hackers have breached top secret systems. An MoD spokesman said: "The MoD takes all possible precautions to defend our system from attack from both unsolicited, for example 'spam' email, and targeted sources. It would be both misleading and naïve to assume that any system is 100% secure against all possible threats which is why we take additional steps to detect suspicious activity within our own systems.”
In light of this, Ash Patel, country manager for UK & Ireland of Stonesoft commented, “A cyber-attack on the MoD’s computer systems throws up an interesting question. There is no doubt that the level of security that the MoD will have in place is very high, so whilst it hasn’t been confirmed who was behind the attack – the question on everybody’s lips is: how did a virus infiltrate the systems in the first place?
“One answer to this, is the use of techniques such as Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs), which allow hackers the opportunity to deliver malware to targeted devices, easily manoeuvring past security systems, without being detected. As such, hackers then have the ability to manipulate systems, and can even steal data without being traced. Unfortunately, inadequate protection against AETs means that it can often take some time before companies notice if a hacker was there to either wreak havoc or to take valuable information.
“However, there are solutions to this problem – the best thing to do would be to evaluate the current security in place and then for the MoD to speak with their security provider about how to increase the level of protection they receive.” |
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