Summary
Can you keep business safe from hackers? Many companies now feel besieged by constant attacks and few can claim not to have been targeted. In the first of a new series of the award-winning The Bottom Line Evan Davis and guests discuss the anatomy of a cyber attack - where the threats are coming from and how best to respond. And they'll ask - should businesses be more honest about the security breaches they've faced?
Guests Richard Knowlton, Group Corporate Security Director, Vodafone Rashmi Knowles, Chief Security Architect, RSA Seth Berman, Executive MD, Stroz Friedberg
Producer : Sally Abrahams.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this programme. In this edition of the bottom line, Evan Davis and guests discuss cyber security, how to stop the hackers stealing personal data and trade secrets. |
| 0:11.3 | Hello and welcome to the programme. Every silver lining has a cloud and so it is with the wonderful technology that has brought us computers and connectivity because it's brought us cyber |
| 0:21.6 | crime, a serious risk for many businesses. There have been some high-profile accusations and some |
| 0:27.0 | high-profile cases recently. The giant US retailer Target had payment card details of 70 million |
| 0:33.9 | customers stolen back in December, a reminder of the potential scale of a single attack. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, my three guests today can tell us all about the consequences and potential cures. |
| 0:44.8 | They're all involved in trying to protect company secrets and personal data. |
| 0:48.9 | And let's start by taking a few minutes to meet each of them. |
| 0:52.4 | And first, Rashmi Knowles is chief security architect at |
| 0:56.0 | RSA, the security division of EMC. Rashmi, you can explain what RSA do better than me, but |
| 1:01.9 | people will associate it with those little secure ID tokens which companies give to their staff |
| 1:06.8 | to log into the system. So RSA are a security company and we are known for those tokens. |
| 1:11.9 | And a token is effectively a tool that allows you to securely connect to a site. |
| 1:17.2 | So rather than just using a password, it generates a random number that authenticate who you are |
| 1:22.3 | and allows you to connect to a site. A lot of corporates use it, a lot of consumer banking use it. |
| 1:27.0 | So that's kind of most of our |
| 1:28.7 | business, but we also do other security solutions. And who are your clients? We work with everyone |
| 1:34.9 | from small and medium businesses to governments, to defence companies. Obviously, the |
| 1:39.6 | higher end of the scale, financial institutions and government bodies, defence organisations, |
| 1:44.9 | tend to be the ones who invest a lot more. So we do a lot more with them. Now, your company |
| 1:49.9 | was hacked, which is obviously very ironic because you're in the security business, but it was |
| 1:54.4 | quite a high profile case. Just tell us a little about what happened. It was probably about two years |
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