Yes you are. Security professionals should be educating executives that make that mistaken assumption to understand how valuable their IT infrastructure is by itself, no matter what data is there. Brick and mortar criminals steal fast cars to use when robbing a bank, it’s the same thing for servers on the Internet, email accounts, FTP and web sites; they might not be valuable for the data they hold, but they are valuable tools to be used in attacks against others.
"We are not a target"
"We are not a target"
"We are not a target"
Yes you are. Security professionals should be educating executives that make that mistaken assumption to understand how valuable their IT infrastructure is by itself, no matter what data is there. Brick and mortar criminals steal fast cars to use when robbing a bank, it’s the same thing for servers on the Internet, email accounts, FTP and web sites; they might not be valuable for the data they hold, but they are valuable tools to be used in attacks against others.