LGMS looks to expand beyond banking, financial services

LEADING cybersecurity firm LE Global Services is looking to expand beyond the banking and financial services due to constant requests from other industries. LE Global executive director and senior information technology (IT) security consultant Fong Choong Fook said pervasiveness of computing today, in which handheld devices were connected to corporate systems, had resulted in greater cyber threats. “Many companies have discovered that ‘ground-level defences’ such as anti-virus programmes are insufficient to protect against hackers and cyber threats. From the perspective of the majority of hackers, potential targets are mostly selected based on discovered vulnerabilities rather than the value of data behind the website.” Quoting a report by research firm Gartner, Fong said that 75 per cent of attacks today occured at the application level. Quoting a report by research firm Gartner, Fong said that 75 per cent of attacks today occured at the application level. For the full article click here 

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