How Target breach could change company hacking security
The ripple effect of last year's Target data breach has the potential to expand far beyond the company and its clientele.
If a ruling against the retailer holds, it could set a precedent wherein companies can be sued for negligence in "failing to respond to warnings from security software."
While this could lead to companies being more diligent with their security measures, it could lead to the opposite effect of companies during a blind eye to hacks.
From Christian Science Monitor:
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If the Minnesota ruling influences other courts to allow similar lawsuits, it could ironically prompt companies to pull back from more robust security monitoring systems, say some experts.
"There is a huge security negative to this kind of ruling," says John Pescatore, director of emerging security threats at the SANS Institute in Baltimore. "It reinforces the 'better not to know, than to know and not do anything' [mindset]. For way too long that was used as a reason not to do vulnerability scanning or penetration testing - a huge mistake."
On The Daily Circuit we talk about company policies and best practices for protecting consumer cyber security.
Learn more about cyber security:
• FBI: 90% Of Cyber Security Systems Out There Would Not Have Been Able To Block The Sony Hackers (Business Insider)
• How You Think About Big Data For Cyber Security--And What You're Doing About It--May Not Agree (Forbes)
• Why Cybersecurity Must Be Defined By Process, Not Tech (Wall Street Journal)
• Cybersecurity for the holidays: A non-stop job (USA Today)