Three lessons IT security professionals can learn from Game of Thrones

As far as data protection is concerned, it is usually the banks that are in the firing line. However, we’ve recently seen that even the glamorous world of television is not immune to cyber threats when the first four episodes of the new Game of Thrones series were leaked from HBO. It just goes to show, that as long as a cyber attacker considers something to be valuable then appropriate security measures need to be taken to protect it.

Taking all things into consideration, it’s possible that the HBO hack was an inside job or used compromised privileged access rights. This notion made me consider how such a betrayal would be dealt with in Game of Thrones’ fictional world of Westeros?

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