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JOHN MAILHOT: They’re pretty standard enterprise tools. They should be there in every organisation, like the CISO (chief information security officer), who has some responsibility for overall cybersecurity footprint and defence mechanisms. There’s on-call mechanisms and IT organisations. You’re under attack all the time, and it’s a question of: does it get anywhere? Most of them don’t, but a few of them can get a hold. Lots of people think they would know when they’re getting attacked, but you can be breached and not know it for months. Most attacks are latent. PHIL MYERS: Ultimately, you must have a process, because the reality is somebody is going to get into the facility. It’s about providing business and broadcast continuity, in the same way as if a natural disaster hit. You’ve got to know what to do if something like this happens. You can see with Channel 9, they had to take very quick measures to keep the operation running. But it could’ve gone a lot further than that, and taken out the entire network. NEAL ROMANEK: How are broadcasters monitoring and detecting when these attacks become major threats?
NEAL ROMANEK: How does working in the cloud affect this?
JOHN MAILHOT: It’s easier because the cloud deployments designed to operate in the cloud are secure from the first day. There’s no legacy entanglements, or legacy protocols to worry about; everything’s designed with current technology and standards, secure from day one. There’s also an inherent segmentation of things in the cloud. For example, if I put my playout operation there, it’s in its own little zone. PHIL MYERS: In terms of the cloud, as John alluded to, yes, it’s very secure. But you still have to allow for caretaking of content, as well as preparing a failure plan. Start with understanding where the issues are, and where the potential risks within your facility are, because it’s expensive either way. Once you’ve been hacked, you can always look back in hindsight, saying I just wish I’d spent the money.
“YOU CAN BE BREACHEDAND NOT KNOWABOUT IT FOR MONTHS. MOSTATTACKSARE LATENT”
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