Protecting Privacy
Sadly, it seems that privacy is rarely appreciated by individuals or organisations until it is compromised.
Perhaps it’s due to the inherent trust many people have in others, leading them to believe it won’t happen to them. Perhaps it’s a dismissal of the fact that experienced privacy attackers are paid to illicit private organisational or personal information. Maybe it’s because some risk managers and security directors think that technical surveillance only happens elsewhere (overseas/movies/spy novels).
Whatever the reasons may be, we at Verrimus urge you to take your privacy protection seriously.
We’re guessing that everyone individually or as part of an organisation has been subject to some form of human engineering privacy attack these days. Whether that be via vishing, phishing or other methods, the end goal is the same – the attacker wishes to compromise your privacy for some form of gain (usually, but not exclusively, a financial gain). Privacy attackers deploy a number of different methods to gain the information they want. It’s very easy to acquire, install and use technical surveillance attacks – not quite so easy to detect, identify and locate them though!
It’s important to protect your privacy across all security threat domains.
We often find organisations and individuals understand the need to ensure their physical safety is secured. Most people understand the risks inherent in online interactions and know that they must establish and maintain their cyber security processes. However, when we discuss technical surveillance countermeasures, many clients come to us with very little awareness of what technical surveillance is and even less awareness of how to mitigate.
Please ensure that you personally or professionally are not ignoring the significant threat of technical surveillance. Whether it’s; a personal attack to eavesdrop on your private conversations/ a passive network tap on your organisation’s system/a key stroke logger installation/ a ‘bug’ in the boardroom/ a hidden camera in staff toilets or hotel spaces/a compromised telephone or any number of other attacks, the first step to design a prevention strategy is to be aware of the threat, assess the risk and mitigate appropriately.
We can assist you, contact info@verrimus.com
