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    Posted: May 08 2013 at 4:29pm

When I read this year's Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec (ISTR), it confirmed how dangerous it is to underestimate cybercriminals. As an online business, CD Baby is completely dependent on our eCommerce site, and any threat poses a serious risk to our business. Cybercriminals are creating new tactics such as watering hole attacks that compromise legitimate business websites, using them as a springboard to attack other organizations. This is especially a risk for smaller businesses.

In fact, I was surprised to see how much of an emphasis cybercriminals are placing on SMBs, with 31 percent of all targeted attacks directed at us. The ISTR called out the overall increase in targeted attacks in 2012, and we've seen some very sophisticated attacks in our company over the past few months, even spoofing our own internal addresses. While we thought this meant a compromise of our accounts, the report showed that this can indeed be a targeted attack as well, and knowing that helps us with our security moving forward.

For a long time, I have been emphasizing the need in the company for multiple layers of security that can mitigate the impact of a security incident on any element in our IT architecture including desktops, laptops, servers and critical business applications like our website. As IT staff we also know that each layer of security has to incorporate multiple protection technologies in order to defend against today's sophisticated threats. And, because our website is absolutely essential for our business to keep running, we know that it's vital to apply consistent practices at every layer of security, rather than just flipping the switch on a security solution and hoping for the best....

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