For any of you not familiar with Kroll & Associates and AIG's involvement with 9/11 you should watch this film. Then read the article below and ask yourself, what type of cyberattacks are Kroll and AIG planning?
Now after watching that, watch this and the additional 12 segments:
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AIG Survey: Execs Say Cyber Attacks A Top Threat
By: Mary Thompson
CNBC Reporter
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The threat of a cyber attack tops the threat of losing money as the primary risk business executives are concerned about, according to a new survey sponsored by the insurance giant AIG.
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"It's becoming a C-suite problem," said John Gambale, Head of Professional Liability & Lexington Financial Lines at AIG. "[The executives are] asking what information are we collecting? Who has access to that information? How is it being stored? Where is it being stored? Is that information on a laptop, and is that laptop leaving the building? Is it leaving the country?" (Read More: Businesses Facing Increasing Cyber Threats: Security Experts)
Cyber-attacks have been a growing threat for well over a decade now, impacting victims ranging from the Federal Reserve to the country's largest banks to the discount retailer T.J. Maxx. Companies most likely to be targets are those that collect important personal information like providers of financial services, health care, and higher education as well as e-tailers.
"Any entity with personal, identifiable information — anything that can be converted to money is at risk," said Michael DuBose, Managing Director, Cyber Investigations Practice at the security firm Kroll. He pointed out the top threat to corporate America continues to be from insiders stealing trade secrets and other data, and selling it to rivals or foreign countries, though cyber-attacks cannot be ignored.
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DuBose said the hacker, via malware or malicious software, can now infiltrate a system and stay for months, monitoring data traffic and other information without being detected by the anti-virus scans employed by most corporations. (Read More:Pentagon in Major Expansion of Cybersecurity Force )
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Still, the executives surveyed by AIG are less concerned with the financial cost of an attack, than with the reputational damage an attack might cause, said Gambale. He pointed out keeping their clients information safe is critical to what many corporations do. If a data breach causes a firm to lose the trust of their clients, they lose their clients' business.
Since 1999, AIG's been in the business of insuring against these attacks. Gambale estimated cyber insurance is now a $500 million to $600 million business — one some estimate could reach a billion dollars in a few years. (Read More: How to Protect Your Devices From New Hack Threat )
Like the attacks themselves, the business of insuring against them have changed. In the past AIG provided services after a breach, including a breach coach, forensic assistance in tracing the breach, credit monitoring and notification services to clients. Today, its sells a product called CyberEdge.
CyberEdge provides proactive protection by putting additional software outside a firm's firewall to prevent globally known "bad" IP addresses from getting through that firewall. It is a product Gambale believes is for any firm, large or small.
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Kroll works with AIG in providing forensic services to the insurer's clients after a breach has happened. DuBose said cyber insurance is a good thing for firms, as it provides a remedial infrastructure that they may not develop on their own. (Read More: Former US Spy Warns on Cybersecurity )
The full article in it's original form can be found here....
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Mary Thompson is either completely ignoring historical fact related to AIG and their CIA connections and nefarious acts of the past, or she is innocently ignorant. Well, what do you expect from CNBC, owned by Comcast and GE, who greatly benefited from bailouts and the war on terror launched after 9/11.
But how can you blame CNBC? The propaganda machine is simply parroting what they are told by Leon Panetta (see here) and we know that Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever (see here) and with good reason, right because banks are saying that hackers in Iran (see here) and China (see here)are responsible.
After all, the cyber security experts say that we should expect another 9/11, another Pearl Harbor. Kroll is among those experts foretelling the doomsday scenarios (see here).
But we can always depend on our government to take these threats seriously and use our tax dollars wisely to protect its citizens (well, not always, see here, and here).
Certainly Kroll and AIG have no influence over our foreign policy, right? There is no connection. They can't create an imaginary threat and then force our government to go to war, just so than can profit from it, right? No, that kind of thing never happens. I mean there is no place that Kroll and AIG can bend the ear of government on foreign policy, is there?
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