Protection from cyber attacks a priority: DHL Asia Pacific CIO

DHL Asia Pacific Chief Information Officer Steve Walker, speaking at a CEOs Forum organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, underscored the importance of making ‘security’ a priority in companies if they were to prevent such attacks.Quoting a study by Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky, he said that out of 4,000 businesses in 25 countries, 38 percent came under cyber-attack, while data was removed from 25 percent of these companies during such attacks.“These attacks are no longer carried out by young kids looking for a bit of laugh but instead the culprits are highly organised people looking to make serious amounts of money or governments doing it for political reasons or movements doing it for moral reasons,” he warned.