Security News > 2020 > August > The Digital Ship is Full of Leaks. But There Are Ways to Keep it Afloat.
Its underlying truth is undeniable: today's technology, particularly at a time of wholesale digital transformation, has expanded the threat surface exponentially, and it keeps expanding all the time, frequently exceeding the bandwidth of human operators to triage which threats are more critical.
Research from the North Carolina State University found that leaks of digital secrets - passwords, cryptographic keys, API, and access credentials to more than 100,000 private code repositories - take place on development platforms such as GitHub thousands of times a day.
What it amounts to is this: while there is a significant amount of cybercrime, and countless individuals and groups who maliciously attack the data of companies and institutions, their dirty work is often enabled by inadvertent errors of honest employees who are rushed to deliver software updates in an increasingly complex digital environment.
Many unintended leaks take place because an individual may not have been versed in company policy about securing technical data.
Before founding Digital Shadows in 2011, Alastair was International Propositions Manager at BAE Systems Detica working with clients in the Gulf, Europe and Australasia.