An Article for Dark Reading by Denim Group Principal, John Dickson
March 2015
Sony Pictures experienced what many are calling the most devastating cyber attack to date, disrupting a movie release, knocking its corporate systems offline for weeks, threatening its distribution channels with terroristic threats of mass violence, and ultimately costing Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman, her job. Throw in the nation-state component and how the attack played out in a very public way, and I see the Sony Pictures hack as a seminal security event that will forever change the way we view cybersecurity.