The chief executive of cybersecurity firm Rubrik warns that Iranian hackers are hitting American businesses instead of the defense industry in response to escalating tensions.
In a new Fox Business interview, Bipul Sinha says the cybersecurity attack on the medical equipment firm Stryker claimed by the Iranian-linked hacking group Handala is a prime example of how nation-state actors are targeting businesses rather than government agencies.
“Anytime you have a geopolitical kinetic action, there is always a retaliatory cyber attack by associated nation-state actors, and we are starting to see that build up. Both our customers and prospects in the region, as well as around the world, have started to ask questions around, how do they protect themselves? How do they protect their business, their IP? And everybody is now saying, ‘assume breach’ is their strategy…
They are going after whatever they can attack to make news. And what is also very interesting is that you saw an attack on a data center in the Middle East. They are going after economic infrastructure, data center, digital infrastructure, anywhere where they can actually make news or steal or ransom the mission-critical data and applications.”
According to Sinha, hackers have a leg up in cybersecurity because they don’t have to follow rules.
“Attackers are always very sophisticated because they don’t have to adhere to any regulation or compliance. So they adopt new technology faster than defenders. And that’s what we are doing. We are actually strengthening the hands of defenders by giving them AI technology in terms of detecting, responding, recovering and keeping the services up and running.
Because after all, agentic work is even more dangerous. Because if agents get compromised, then somebody sitting in North Korea can operate your business. And that can be very, very damaging.”
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