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by Michelle Adams-Dixon
For those not up to speed on the Halloween movie series or just needing a refresher, it’s a bit convoluted. For the sake of ease, we will just start with the original from 1978 and the two set to follow the original that were released in 2018, 2021, and the third and final film set to be released in mid-October 2022 titled Halloween Ends (ignoring all of the other side story remakes or sequels in between that complicate the story).
In the 1978 original, Michael (age six) murders his older sister Judith (age fifteen) on Halloween night in 1963. Fifteen years later, Myers escapes institutionalization and returns to his fictional hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he stalks local babysitter Laurie Strode (portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis) and her high school friends. After murdering several of her friends, Strode eludes the same fate and defeats Myers, who is then re-taken into captivity for 40 years before again escaping, this time in 2018. Determined to finish what he started, Myers pursues Strode, who is dealing with 40 years of PTSD from the initial night of horror and has turned her home into an armory of protection for the day she knew Myers would return.
How will it end? You’ll have to head to the theater to find that out, but switching gears back to cybersecurity and risk, it’s not something that ever ends. It’s about the mitigation and alleviation of threats to your company or organization’s infrastructure. Threats and risk come in many forms and from many different directions, including from your own vendors potentially. Even more alarming is that a recent study showed that 90% of orgs believe that cybersecurity risk isn’t being addressed.
When is the right time to devote resources to diminish risk? The answer is now. Threats don’t sleep. Table it for next quarter? Next year? That could spell danger. The supply chain has been a big headline during the pandemic for many reasons, and the threat around critical infrastructure at the ports and shipping lines could become susceptible to attack and further cripple that industry and complicate our day-to-day lives. In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Halloween, here are some additional scary cyberthreat stats and figures.
Risk and threat management are not something new for this industry, and they’re not something to fear, but they are something to be taken seriously. Properly assessing and equipping your company or organization and the individuals within it remain critical to maintaining a safe and secure environment.
For more information on risk management, be sure to check out our full array of content on the RSAC website here.
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RSAC Insights Human Element
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