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Spate Of Cyber Breaches Shows Many Companies Fail On Best Practices, US-CERT Chief Says

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

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The steady news in 2014 of so many companies disclosing that their computer networks were breached by hackers or nation-states in many cases stems from not following best practices or using good cyber hygiene, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on March 17.Even when companies and other organizations implement network security best practices, they often fail to do the necessary monitoring, Ann Barron-DiCamillo, director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) at DHS, said at the…

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