Cyberthreats to increase with tech advances: expert

An Israeli cybersecurity expert, reports news agency IANS, has said with advances in tech like the Internet of Things (IoT), the challenges to security will increase.

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Menny Barzilay, Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Research Centre of Tel Aviv University and CEO of Cytactic, said the Internet was not designed for security, hence it was inherently insecure since everything was “hackable”. It is more difficult to be a cyber security personnel than a hacker. The hacker has to succeed only once, where the the cyber security personnel has to succeed always to remain safe, within many rules and regulations, he added.

Menny said “smart people” from different countries were joining hands to commit cyber crimes and hence there was “a need for super-smart people” from around the world to join as cyber security experts.

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