Cyber attacks: Build a fortress around your valuable assets

Best-practice security may not be enough to thwart increasingly sophisticated malware attacks

THE aftershocks from the SolarWinds security breach are going to be with us for many years to come, Jacky Fox, MD of Accenture Security Ireland, warns, referencing the 2020 cyber attack where an established tech company was unwittingly used as a springboard to compromise a significant number of US government agencies.

Described as “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen”, it breached software made by information technology firm SolarWinds Corp and went undetected for months, giving hackers access to thousands of companies and government agencies.