GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 29 - July 2014

put inplace a firewall, which is relatively simple tounderstand– it’s controlling the flow of data in and out. And then there wouldbeother levelsof controls.Now the whole thing is about to change. It’s going to focus onbudgets, it’s going to focus on understandingdataflows on thenetwork – what data is moving around, what’s it doing, where’s it going to and the impor- tance of that data. Then you’ll recognize I’munder attack, I’ve been compromised, I can now turn off that compromise. So that’swherewe see the shift. Gartner has recognized that and says by 2020 they think 70 percent of people’s budgets will not be on security controls, but on secu- ritymonitoring. VN: So containing the problem has become thebiggest priority DH: Containing the problem is critical. It’s not just containing the problem, it’s recognizing that youhaveaproblem.One of the big challenges that people have is they’ll get infectedwithmalware, thenew favored route for hackers because they’ll go beyond your defenses and come from the inside back out. Everyone’s defenses arebuilt aroundbigwalls around thenet- work – the inside is all soft and squishy. So if youget inbehind thewall and come back out, you can’t see it. So it’s going to be really important for people to recog- nize (those attacks) and contain (them). Onceyou’vebeen infected,howbig is that windowbetweenyougetting infectedand whenyouknowyou’vebeen infected? It’s critical to reduce thatwindow asmuch as possible. The bigger thewindow, the big- ger the losses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VinNarayanan is the editor-in-chief of the GPWA TimesMagazine andhas been covering the online gambling industry for the last eight years. He’s also an expert on the legal and regulatory landscape of online gaming in theU.S. “ If I can focus onhacking you, any signature- baseddefensewillmiss it because I’vegot it changed tobe ‘at you’ andnobody has ever seen it.”—DavidHobson 37 “Work on the theory that youwill be breached”— an interviewwithMTI’s DavidHobson