RSA attacked by two groups

By

Claims nation-state led the attack, but lacks evidence to lay blame.

RSA has confirmed that a nation state actor was one of two groups behind the attack against the company earlier this year.

RSA attacked by two groups

Executive chairman Art Coviello said at the RSA Conference Europe that the sophistication of the attack could only originate from a nation state.

Howver he said RSA lacks the forensic evidence to attribute the attacks.

“For us, the breach was a validation of our strategy that a perimeter defence was not effective and that is why we bought NetWitness so that we were able to do remediation."

"There has been no successful attacks with the information and only one incident where the information taken was used in an attack.”

Eddie Schwartz, CISO of RSA, who arrived at the company as a result of the NetWitness acquisition, said that the attackers abused the naming convention and had an understanding of the network.

Coviello later said that two groups attacked the company and coordinated from a nation state, with one supporting another and one that was very visible.

RSA president Tom Heiser refused to disclose the cost of replacing tokens and said supply met demand around August.

“We got to to the top 500 customers relatively quickly and the challenge was to meet the needs of tens of thousands of customers, so we used our marketing and press departments to identify those customers. We could not hand-pick who we went to.”

This article originally appeared at scmagazineuk.com

Got a news tip for our journalists? Share it with us anonymously here.
Copyright © SC Magazine, US edition
Tags:

Most Read Articles

India's alarm over Chinese spying rocks CCTV makers

India's alarm over Chinese spying rocks CCTV makers

Hackers abuse modified Salesforce app to steal data, extort companies

Hackers abuse modified Salesforce app to steal data, extort companies

Cyber companies hope to untangle weird hacker codenames

Cyber companies hope to untangle weird hacker codenames

Woolworths' CSO is Optus-bound

Woolworths' CSO is Optus-bound

Log In

  |  Forgot your password?