L' Eomot Inversé (9/9/2013)
dtevlin 55845 (9/9/2013)
You do need encryption for your business data, but the group you need to be wary of is China and Russia. They have a long history of economic espionage for their state owned industries.So far as we on this side of the pond is concerned, most industrial espionage is conducted by Us companies, or by the Us border agencies on behalf of US companies, or by the NSA on behalf of Us companies; local industrial espionage (from within the EU,, whether the same country or not) is a close second; Russia and China come in somewhere later.
Lastly, the network component that NSA is most likely to target is your switch. Going after the core switch is the biggest bang for the buck, instead of piecemeal attacks on individual servers or components.
Why do you think people route everything through their core switch? In my experience, only extremely small companies do that.
Subscribe to SANS. You will see very quickly that China is the leading attacker, but most of the EU is also attacking the US. I BELIEVE Britain has not been caught breaking into US installations, or at least not listed. Other than that, if a country has any Internet connection at all, you can believe they are doing it.
Some countries do it for national security reasons, some for economic advantages - but all that are capable do it.
Dave