Two key take-away's from this article: the cost of a data-breach isn't financial, it is reputational and can be fatal; secondly it is not a matter of 'how they have attacked me', but 'who has attacked me'. The first thing to understand about data breaches in general (and especially cloud computing as an example) is that there are no 'good' or 'bad' attackers.
Two key take-away's from this article: the cost of a data-breach isn't financial, it is reputational and can be fatal; secondly it is not a matter of 'how they have attacked me', but 'who has attacked me'. Information Security teams need to focus on two issues: attribution, and attacker profiling: "by categorising attackers – looking the "who" as well as the "how" - organisations can develop much better responses for future attacks."