Stuart Madnick, John Norris Maguire professor of information technology at the MIT School of Engineering, spoke at Securing Our Future: Cambridge Cyber Summit.
The cyber threat is real.
If you have control of valuable assets, including trillions of dollars of transactions, as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT) does, your company will be attacked. It’s a matter of when, not if, it will happen. That means you need to develop a sophisticated and multifaceted approach to cybersecurity.
Only a few years ago, corporate cybersecurity might have been limited to installing the latest software patch—an activity on par with, say, facilities …read more
Source: Aspen Institute