Fighting Cybercrime

Well-organised and top professional IT crime poses one of the future’s major threats against IT security. Protection is no longer merely a question of acquiring expensive firewall software or installing the latest antivirus programs - but what else is there? This was the subject of the ‘Dive Deeper - Security Summit 2008’ organised by the Danish Technological Institute.

Today, the Internet is a natural, integrated part of Danes’ everyday work scenario and private lives. And the public sector is shifting from paper-based procedures to online communication, which requires it to be abreast of developments - constantly.

International IT experts Andy Marlone and Marcus Carey shared their experience at the ’Dive Deeper - Security Summit 2008’, broaching questions such as: How can you assume the identity of another? And how can you assume the role so convincingly that you succeed in acquiring a new passport and driver’s license for that new identity? How do you hack into company data in public enterprises and private companies alike via Google?

The participants were also introduced to hacking tools and methods and received a tracking program for controlling whether they had been hacked. The course gave all participants food for thought and made them all slightly worried.

Denmark is expected to use EUR 268.4 million on security in 2010 against EUR 174.5 million in 2007 according to IDG Danmark A/S.