’A Brush With The Law’ Cyber Insights for 6th July from The National Cyber Skills Centre
The popular press often informs us that law enforcement resources are overly stretched and thus perhaps I have always felt that the Police are engaged in stakeouts, or doing big drug busts and far too busy to deal with a petty crime that will only inflate the already high crime statistics. So if I feel like that reporting a ‘real’ crime, how would I feel and would I ever bother reporting a cyber crime to them, or worse a suspected cyber crime?
Put yourself in this scenario; you a middle manager of an SME and you make ‘widgets’ for some industrial process. One morning you look for your latest engineering drawings, basically your intellectual property and they have been tampered with, or have disappeared. You would probably speak to your IT provider, see what they say, perhaps they can recover them from a backup, but would it dawn on you that this may have been a cyber crime, or an attempted cyber crime, and if so would you honestly call the Police?
If you witnessed or suffered from a cyber crime, would you actually report it to the Police? Well you should.
Read the rest over at Cyber Insights, brought to you by the National Cyber Skills Centre.
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