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Commentary following Deloitte cyber hack from Smoothwall - why a company should practise what it preaches
September 2017 by Rob Wilkinson, Corporate Security Specialist, Smoothwall
Following news that Deloitte was itself the victim of a cyber breach as of late last year, please find commentary below from Rob Wilkinson, Corporate Security Specialist at internet security company Smoothwall discussing why a company should practice what it preaches:
“When an organisation that openly emphasises cyber security as paramount to any business, is then itself found to be the victim of a major cyber breach – as with the case of Deloitte – it asks some very serious questions of a company which may have been leaking highly-sensitive information since October last year. For a company reporting a near $40bn revenue year ending May ’17, what’s clear is that not enough of that money has been poured into protecting names, emails and plans of some of its biggest clients in the case of a hack. For Deloitte, this could lead to serious financial and reputational damage, more so than any other company – it’s clearly not practising what it preaches.
“Hackers can now come from anywhere, acting individually, part of a group or even be state-sponsored. Their motives can often be quite unclear too; simply creating chaos for the sake of it can have companies scrambling to stem financial damage and a loss in trust from clients and customers alike. Every company from an SME right up to one of the ‘Big Four’ such as Deloitte needs to take cyber security equally importantly and have a strong cyber security culture at its heart. But in all honesty, it shouldn’t be up to us to tell one of the most well-known cyber security companies this. While you would assume Deloitte has the appropriate monitoring, encryption and threat detection in place, it’s clearly not enough to protect them from this type of “access all areas” hack.”
