Brad Taylor, CEO, Proficio reacts: "With all of the breaches and fallout from them over the last year, everyone's is on edge whenever there's a major outage, and worried that it's "the big one" - the attack that takes down a critical resource, and public trust along with it. The fact is that virtually all of the big corporations are hit by known attackers thousands or tens of thousands of times each day. Hackers are constantly probing defenses and testing attack strategies.
"The numbers are such that no company can prevent every intrusion. But every organization can - and really must - continuously, aggressively maintain their walls of defense and react immediately to indicators of attack in the “kill chain” - the stages in a targeted attack that lie between a preliminary penetration and an actual breach.
"Every day is a busy day for most Security Operations Centers, and the security experts monitoring these “war rooms” are just as important to the security of corporate and customer data as air traffic controllers are to safe, reliable air travel."