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The Bad News For Infosec In The Target Settlement: OpEd

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dissent

Giora Engel of LightCyber writes:

The legal argument behind the $10 million Class Action lawsuit and subsequent settlement is a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate. 

Central to the recent Target data breach lawsuit settlement was the idea that cyber attacks are mechanistic and follow a prescribed course or chain of events. The judge hearing the case ruled that Target is liable for not mounting an adequate defense against the 2013 cyber attack that exposed some 40 million customer debit and credit card accounts. Unfortunately, the ruling also may have serious repercussions for many of us in the security profession.

In my opinion, Judge Paul A. Magnuson’s ruling is dangerously flawed and a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate; it ignores the fact that the breach was conducted by actual people. Preventing one event in a supposed chain will not stop a breach. Attackers will simply find another way to achieve their goal. The challenge is to identify that a targeted attack is under way and then rip the attackers out of the network.

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