Roland Abi Najm for CyberX: “Cyber ​​attacks will remain superior to cyber security”

“Your data has been successfully hacked.” “You must pay a ransom of $10 million, or this data will be sold on the dark networks.” These messages and others like them are repeated in our present world, after #electronic_attacks reached 1,112 in the year 2019. According to cognyte.com , its percentage rose in the first half of 2021 to 1,097 attacks. As the global economy and trade become increasingly dependent on #technology in all its forms, it is imperative for countries, companies, and individuals to adapt and adapt to the development taking place, to ensure continuity. Although #technology provides a more efficient economic system, many risks are becoming exposed, demonstrating the importance of raising awareness, highlighting problems that may arise, and finding solutions to them.

According to what the US Department of Commerce stated, the proportion of #e-commerce rose to 16.1 percent of the volume of global trade in the second quarter of the year 2020, while it did not exceed 10.8 percent in the same period of the year 2019. With the increase in the proportion of use of electronic media, fears increased. Of the dangers of the transformation taking place. The Global Risks Report 2020 issued by the World Economic Forum clearly highlighted the risks of #cybercrime, as it was classified as one of the five biggest threats to the global economy. This indicates the importance of #cybersecurity in the future of commercial relations between companies and consumers and the economy in general.

But will we reach a day when #cybersecurity is absolutely stable? The CEO of Revotypes and a consultant on information security and digital transformation, #Roland_Abi_Najm, points out in a statement to the “#Cyber_X” website, “It is impossible to reach a place where electronic information becomes 100% protected. But we must always take precaution,” asking, “Why are we seeing so much From electronic attacks and hackings? Because life has become digital, which has provided hackers with millions of targets to penetrate. This field has become like a profession that generates millions of dollars for them. Even their services have become in supply and demand, for them to carry out special tasks. They have become highly technological.”

With the transformation in work methods and complete reliance on #technological_means, in addition to the spread of the phenomenon of remote work, the cost of #cyber_attacks on the global economy exceeded one trillion US dollars in the year 2020, which has become a clear indication of the increase and frequency of these attacks and the development of their technologies. Abi Negm believes that “international efforts have failed, despite an attempt to establish a summit of thirty countries, including the United States of America, with the aim of finding specific solutions to ransomware attacks and other types of electronic attacks, but the countries accused of having organized hacking groups demanding ransoms were not invited or Participation in the summit. It also denied its connection to this topic. Naturally, it did not and will not extradite its citizens accused of fraudulent electronic operations,” stressing that “the first problem lies in the lack of regulatory laws that include all countries. The second problem is that #cybersecurity is not a purely technical topic and can Addressing it. Rather, there is a group of factors starting from the supply chain attack or the targeting of cybersecurity companies by hackers that must provide protection for other companies. As for the third problem, it is #social_engineering and exploiting the errors of employees or network users, which is something that cannot be prevented.” As an example of this, the CEO of Revotypes and a consultant on information security and digital transformation, #Roland_Abi_Najm, recalled the attack on the White House in the United States of America in 2016. While it must have the highest levels of electronic protection and the highest level of awareness and knowledge among its employees, nevertheless, “ After the attack, officials from the White House Cybersecurity Department created a phishing email and sent it to a group of employees. The email included a message asking not to click on an attached link, but 5% of the tested group clicked on the link before verifying the information received. He added, “The fourth problem is what is known as the zero click attack, which is the attack that exposes the computer or smartphone to hacking as soon as a fraudulent message is received, and before the user opens it or clicks on it.”

As for ways to protect against #electronic_attacks, Abi Najm points out that “it is important to keep devices protected and updated, but even the antivirus does not provide absolute protection, because it is not considered a proactive process, but rather a reaction to #electronic_attacks. And between the occurrence of the cyberattack And when the virus was spread and until it was discovered and a vaccine was manufactured, hacking and piracy operations would have taken place, which led some companies to try to develop themselves and work on the behavior of the virus or what is known as the zero day attack, but they did not succeed in a certain place because the hackers are more intelligent.” The most successful means of protection against electronic attacks, according to Abu Najm, is what he called the term “ think before you click ,” or thinking before clicking on any link or site, as most calamities occur due to one wrong or hasty click, so checking the sources of information, prevention, and experience warns and protects. “Reporting attacks and breaches, if they occur, remains a necessary, important and awareness-raising step.”

The saying “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” has long been widespread at the health and medical levels, but today it applies to the health of our devices and our electronic environment in our professional and private lives. In order to maintain the highest levels of safety and protection and not be exposed to hacking, all users of #electronic_devices and the Internet must be constantly informed of all developments at the technological and cyber levels so that we do not regret when regret is of no use.