With over 24 years of experience, Alex is well known in the cyber security industry for identifying and delivering compelling product solutions and strategic partnerships resulting in increased customer value and company acceleration. As founding VP of Business Development, Channels, and Strategic Alliances at network security analytics pioneer Solera Networks, Alex developed the industry’s first Advanced Threat Protection eco-system with a highly successful partnering approach evidenced by success for customers, strategic partners and investors alike. Alex also served as VP Corporate Development at Blue Coat Systems and held executive roles Cisco LANDesk, and Novell

‘We are delighted to welcome Alex to join the Digital Shadows family and help us build a world-class global business development strategy to further protect customers around the globe with our unique offering and further accelerate our market penetration, said Alastair Paterson, CEO and Co-Founder of Digital Shadows. ‘I am confident he will help us to drive the build out of a robust global partner eco-system by developing industry differentiating technology partnerships and global strategic commercial partnerships.

“Today’s digital economy indexed on the use of digital technologies requires that organizations gain situational awareness into their digital footprint to understand their external risk exposure and enable threat mitigation actions. Such a holistic approach requires collaboration and integrations. Through Alex’s industry knowledge, experience and past success in developing strategic partner eco-systems, we expect Digital Shadows customers to benefit in even greater terms through streamlined workflows and increased product availability,” said Doug Cahill, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

Digital Shadows finished 2016 with its third consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth, and experienced significant customer expansion in both the United States and Europe, across verticals such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, and technology. The company expanded rapidly, reaching 100 employees in the second half of 2016 and opening a new office in Dallas to add to the sites in San Francisco and London.

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“Attacks can either be opportunistic in nature, whereby a threat actor will target an organization having discovered a particular software vulnerability on a public-facing site, or more targeted as the organization may hold particularly sensitive or lucrative information that can be used for a variety of malicious uses. Broadcasting services represent potentially worthwhile targets as they often hold extensive personal details about their customers, such as names, dates of birth, physical addresses and payment information,” said Chris Brown, VP EMEA, Digital Shadows.

The report further revealed that by their very nature, news sites attract large amounts of traffic. While this is great for their business models, it makes them an attractive target for malvertising, which is often used as a vector to compromise users who visit legitimate websites. Because advertising content can be inserted into high profile and reputable websites, malvertising provides online criminals with an opportunity to push their attacks to web users who might not otherwise see the advertisements, due to the use of firewalls or other safety precautions. The ‘Shooting the Messenger’ report further revealed a different approach to cyberattacks – typosquatting – where attackers use domain names that are similar to launch a wide variety of online fraud including phishing campaigns.

Chris Brown further added, “Given the availability and low barriers of entry to leverage DDoS tools, one can expect both the frequency and size of DDoS attacks to increase. However, DDoS attacks are only one piece of a far larger threat landscape for media organizations. IoT botnets have also demonstrated the capability to launch high volume denial of service attacks and despite increasing awareness, the security of IoT devices is likely to remain an issue for the foreseeable future as a growing number of Internet-facing products are insecurely brought to the market and threat actors develop ways to exploit them. Security professionals must understand the other threats that pose risks to their industry including malvertising, extortion and data leakage and by understanding these threats, as well as the actors behind them, media and broadcasting companies can better secure themselves and their customers.”

Email addresses of media and broadcasting organizations have also been leaked through other breaches. In a recent Digital Shadows report that analyzed the extent of credential compromise from the world’s biggest 1,000 companies, many leaked credentials were discovered. By analyzing nearly 30,000 claimed breaches, discovered across paste sites, criminal forums and dark web sources, we discovered over 935,870 email and password combinations for the media and entertainment industry. The top breaches were, somewhat unsurprisingly, social media platforms. Indeed, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr breaches were responsible for a respective 41, 14 and 3 percent of the total leaked credentials.

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