Cyber threats are a real and present danger for every size of business. However, hackers are using time-tested business principles in their own dark enterprises: they are pivoting to where they can find better success.
The aerospace realm is host to a highly innovative, competitive, and crowded group of technologically savvy dreamers and doers. And the information they mine can (and likely will) change the course of history. That elite group is not only competing against each other but also embattled with other elite players—hackers with nefarious intentions.
Consider this: recent studies of cybersecurity place the percentage of data breaches caused by employee error between 88 and 95%.
“One in four such employees lose their job within about a year, even though more than half of employees fall for a phishing email because the attacker impersonated a senior executive at the company,” according to the Security Today article.
