Zero the Hero
“Each [online] transaction is a potential mine of valuable personal and financial information for the cybercriminal.” Yikes! (Image of X-Men character Storm courtesy of the Marvel Universe Wiki)
It’s not often I hear a call for a “global cyber nation,” much less one that comes from a “global cloud security leader.’ But today—on Cyber Monday—I did.
Tomorrow, members of the International Cyber Security Protection Service will meet in Washington D.C. to take on cyber threats against everything from banks, aerospace and defense industries to intellectual property and financial data.
ICSPS was founded in July in the United Kingdom, where British Prime Minister David Cameron described the group—which includes international law-enforcement organizations and government agencies—as “a network powerful enough and wide enough to face down cybercrime.”
Washington D.C.–based Trend Micro Inc.—the afore-mentioned “global cloud security leader” was among the principal sponsors of the ICSPS. Trend Micro operates a cloud-based “world safe” to house digital information.
“The protection of the global cyber nation needs to look a lot more like the cloud computing model—interconnected at every level, cross-boundary, perimeterless,” said John Lyons, chief executive officer of ICSPA. “This gives each member country a powerful, broad stake in the defense of the realm as a whole."
Tomorrow’s roundtable in Washington D.C. comes on the heels of the kickoff to the all-important holiday shopping season—and this year, forecasters are predicting a surge in online shopping. With that in mind, the Trend Micro warned “each transaction is a potential mine of valuable personal and financial information for the cybercriminal.”
According to the Trend Micro, the average online shopper spends $400 annually on a variety of goods. The top four most-purchased items online are computers, consumer electronics, toys and apparel. And, most alarmingly, “two of the most commonly phished sites are eBay and PayPal,” according to Trend Micro.
