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UNDER SIEGE It’s a cyberwar out there. In case you hadn’t noticed.
The benefits of our digital wonderland have also brought with them a truckload of – quite scary – vulnerabilities. The ability to exchange messages with anyone in the world also means you are subjected to disinformation from anywhere in the
world. Getting access to the world’s storehouse of information or instant publishing tools for ‘free’ also means you’re granting access to your innermost secrets to the highest bidder. And ubiquitous connectivity and the promise of the Internet of Things means that a determined few can destroy a nuclear facility or – as almost happened to TV5Monde in 2015 – take a TV network offline for good. In this issue, we look at media industry cybersecurity. Often, it’s content protection or anti-piracy that leap to mind when we think about protecting data in the M&E sector. But that often obscures the more direct threats that include everything from cybervandalism, data theft, ransomware and extortion to using cyber to literally destroy physical infrastructure ( just shut down the air conditioning in a server farm and take a stroll around the block). Half the battle is knowledge – knowing you are vulnerable, but that there are steps you can take to protect yourself and the institutions and businesses you care about. If malicious cyber activity made the same noise as real-world criminal activity, we could hardly hear above the constant racket, but it’s silent and so we don’t realise it’s going on all around us, all the time. Feeling paranoid? You should.
EDITORIAL EDITOR Neal Romanek +44 (0) 1223 492246 nealromanek@bright-publishing.com
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