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WannaCry Again?
Cybersecurity In The Age Of Unlimited Connectivity
Thomas Köhler is an hit by a cyberattack that they had drives you down a cliff, your cardiac
internationally recognised to shut down their operations – at pacemaker that then gives random
expert on digital least for a few days. The incident signals to your heart or a malware
transformation and was caused by a ransomware called forced shutdown of the electric grid
cybersecurity. In his new book WannaCry and put the spotlight on that will not only leave many people
“Understanding Cyber Risk: our dependency on technology. In the angry but will lead to riots and civil
Protecting Your Corporate past a security incident sometimes war if not fixed within a few hours
Assets” as well as in his left you without access to your email, (just ask your utility company about
speeches Thomas gives us your favourite website, or your friends their emergency planning).
deep insight into the perils and on Facebook for a few hours or days.
pitfalls of our connected age The incidents were annoying and We need to rethink our approach
and useful recommendations sometimes costly or time consuming to to IT security – as society, as well
on how to fix our security fix but nowhere near life threatening. as in the corporate world and in the
models and concepts – before This has changed. WannaCry has privacy of our homes. Firewalls and
it is too late. proved that neglecting the challenges anti virus tools are no longer sufficient
of our hyper-connected world can be in an era of highly automated hacker
It has been almost a year now, since much more dangerous. Hackers may toolkits and in the dawn of artificial
major hospitals in the UK and the even have caused fatalities already. intelligence-based cyber attacks.
US, a French carmaker and a major And it gets worse. Just think about the
European telecommunications possible consequences of a successful
service provider were so severely future cyber attack on your connected
autonomous car, that subsequently
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