A global perimeter falls
Another example of how the technical alignment of the perimeter-based model helps proliferate exploitation and is woefully ineffective at combatting current threat actions comes from an analysis of what happened to the shipping giant Maersk.
In 2017, a Ukrainian company with software used for accounting – the Linkos group – was operating as normal. Unbeknownst to the IT leaders and users at this company, the servers that were connected to hundreds of clients and responsible for updating their accounting software were the launching point for the initial proliferation of the NotPetya ransomware attack.
The Linkos group, which did nothing "wrong" other than be located in a country that was actively being targeted by the military wing of the cyber operations branch of the Russian government, had been the victim of months of covert exploitation conducted to gain a military advantage in the region.
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