Thinking like a criminal improves cybersecurity for IBM

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This team of researchers is employed to test the limits of organisations’ security, uncovering weak points in both physical and cybersecurity that may be exploitable by attackers. GlobalData’s technology writer Ellen Daniel says: “By ‘thinking like a criminal’ X-Force Red comes up with new and creative ways of infiltrating organisations before an attacker does. X-Force Red researchers have successfully shipped in packages containing cheap but powerful computers, small enough to go unnoticed, making it possible to infiltrate an organisation from within its walls.” Charles Henderson, global managing partner and head of X-Force Red, says: “We started looking at new and interesting ways we could get on folks’ wireless networks, in ways that we could also do surveillance on our clients that they may not have thought of with their physical security practices, and warshipping came out of that. “And they actually had what’s called a Faraday cage that prevented RF [radio frequencies] from leaving the facility, they had it shielded. And when it was removed from the facility and could phone home, it dumped all that data.” With a plethora of new methods at their disposal, how can organisations prepare for the type of attack cybercriminals may deploy next?

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