Thread: Data Breach
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August 14th, 2019, 02:13 #21
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Smmiteworks does not host the games you play. That is an important distinction from R20. If someone hacks your game, they get your game and that's it. Make sure the password you use here is different from the password you use anywhere else, and there is very little information they can get from you here. Even most of the financial information is stored at PayPal and not with Smiteworks.
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August 14th, 2019, 02:37 #22
100%.
I do a lot of work in cyber security. Its not my exclusive gig but I spend more than a third of my time on cyber security now.
I dont have a 2 year plan for cyber security.
Every day we learn more about the current threat environment from published vulnerabilities and fixes, from changing traffic patterns in logs, from shared discussions with others operating in my space and from the @#$% I deal with every day.
We make multiple changes and updates across all of our networks every week.
Todays best practice mght be frowned upon tomorrow and possibly laughed at in 2 years.
Briefs. I just feel safer in briefs ok.
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August 15th, 2019, 02:40 #23
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I am certainly glad you are both not doing my cyber security LOL. If you do not have a budget plan, training plan, hiring plan, talent recruitment plan, and resource allocation plans for cyber security that goes forward 5 years or more looking towards the what ifs and trends of the field, you are going to fall behind. Goals and mile stones are huge. IN addition you could have said I don't know or said we have a plan that protects against this or that or even better pointed me in the direction of someone who may be able to. Lastly, briefs are for old people. Boxers ftw.
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August 15th, 2019, 03:31 #24
@bukkyo- get real. Sorry, but you really need to get real. SmiteWorks is not some massive company with hundreds of employees and budgets that allow them to plan that far into the future. We're talking about the RPG industry here, not some MMO or console company that has millions of turnover and stores financial details about you.
And, again giving you some reality here, I think you'll find that most small companies with some form of Internet presence which stores a small amount of your data is in the same boat.
Quite frankly, with your viewpoint I'm surprised you even go onto the Interent, because 99% of the websites out there don't have anything like the years into the future plans you seem to think are essential. Disconnect from the 'net!!!Private Messages: My inbox is forever filling up with PMs. Please don't send me PMs unless they are actually private/personal messages. General FG questions should be asked in the forums - don't be afraid, the FG community don't bite and you're giving everyone the chance to respond and learn!
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August 15th, 2019, 03:45 #25
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Oh Bukkyo, what shall we do against the vile marauders at the door?! Will you protect us, oh noble Bukkyo? Name your price stalwart defender, and I shall certainly pay it, for you are our only salvation.
Your knowledge of all the buzzwords and catchphrases prove that it must be so ...
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August 15th, 2019, 04:10 #26
Sorry to reply again to this, but I have to follow up on this. Are you seriously expecting a company of less than 10 employees to have these things in place for 5 years or more? Budget plan? Training plan? Hiring plan? Talent recruitment plan? Resource allocation plan? For cyber security 5 years or more into the future?
Even if we're talking about a big company with hundreds of thousands of $$ to dedicate to this, as has already been mentioned - with cyber security you don't know what's coming next week, let alone next year. 5 years into the future? You may as well be planning a mission to Alpha Centauri for the relevance it's going to have.Private Messages: My inbox is forever filling up with PMs. Please don't send me PMs unless they are actually private/personal messages. General FG questions should be asked in the forums - don't be afraid, the FG community don't bite and you're giving everyone the chance to respond and learn!
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August 15th, 2019, 05:29 #27
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To be honest I was going to say that the company structure he describes sounds pretty small. In the companies I used to work at budgets were handled by executives and accounting, training was handled by education, hiring and recruiting (basically the same thing listed twice) by human resources, software security by MIS, network security handled by network administration (software), network engineering (hardware), etc... the focus groups assigned to prepare for disasters, cyber intrusions, physical intrusions, etc., probably were each larger than the entire staff of Smiteworks.
The difference of course is the staff of Smiteworks have shown to be fairly computer savvy whereas a companies like the ones I'm talking about have a few hundred or even thousand savvy people and a couple hundred thousand 'users' spread across the globe that you could warn all day and they'll still click that email you just warned them about...
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August 15th, 2019, 06:07 #28
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August 15th, 2019, 09:15 #29
Training helps, but it doesn't stop everyone. No one thing does. Sometimes things look so good I almost fall for it. I do agree SmiteWorks is far more transparent than most companies.
Bukkyo If you reread the statement, you can SmiteWorks employs folks who's focus on the areas of concern you've brought up. I can understand some of the frustration. It sucks any of us have to worry about it.Last edited by Mortani; August 15th, 2019 at 12:51. Reason: employs typo :)
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August 15th, 2019, 10:28 #30
That sounds like someone who has read a couple of the IT Security course manuals (& perhaps, maybe, sat one of the exams) but as someone who has a Masters Degree in IT (Management & Security) as well as a slew of other IT qualifications (proof: check out my LinkedIn Profile and/or call the relevant Universities/Organisations and ask) I can tell you that that is not how the real world works - for small or large companies!
And that's one reason (but not the most relevant) why we have IT Security Issues reported in the news every week.Dulux-Oz
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