SOFTWARE AVG INTERVIEW
UK MD Michael Foreman at the AVG 2011 launch event in Londn
"Cyber criminals are now taking your name and bits of information from different sources and putting it together. So you don’t have to do something silly once,
they can pick off stuff." JR Smith, AVG
classified prints and documents for everything from planes, trains and automobiles. It would be really foolish to think that it isn’t number one on most governments’ watch lists. They will be thinking ‘what are we doing about it, are we protecting our infrastructure?’ For sure.
Governments won’t necessarily be savvy to what the cyber threats are though. Do they have to turn to guys like you in the tech industry? Absolutely, and they do. Banks, hospitals, enterprises – there’s a huge amount of information there, everywhere you go there’s an opportunity there for some type of threat. So yeah, I would say there is a lot of co-oporation.
Have increases in sophistication or
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tenacity of cyber threats hindered the ascension of the cloud at all? I think you’re right, I think it probably has. Especially if you’re a small business. We know there are threats and we read about them at least once a week. I think for adoption of managed services in the cloud, or just storage in the cloud, it’s definitely slowed uptake. And small businesses often have less
protection than a consumer – if someone drains their bank account they aren’t necessarily as protected as you or I.
The way cyber threats are evolving now, what to you think the landscape will be like in around ten years’ time? I think they will get more and more complex. The individuals and groups that are orchestrating cyber crime are
incredibly organised. They’ve got offices, build schedules, and automation. I believe that 80 per cent of what we see is all just smokescreen, while only 20 per cent is actually real and could do some damage. From what we’re seeing now, the
signs are that they have their own scanners, and they’re taking your name and bits of information from different sources and putting it together. So you don’t have to do something silly once, they can pick off stuff. The botnets are becoming more intelligent; in fact a lot of them will try to fight back. If they see it’s security software going after them, they’ll attack. Our chief scientist even got scammed. We’re blocking about 5,000 malicious programmes from Facebook a day, and we’re going to see a lot more impersonation threats.
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