10 Deadliest Differences of State-Sponsored Attacks

CIO Magazine | Dec 1, 2014

A state-sponsored attacker is motivated by strategic gain, not financial. They’ll keep after a company, its employees, and its business partners, until they get in. A financially-motivated criminal wants to see the biggest return on their investment, so they’ll go after the least-defended companies first. “There are certainly plenty of targets,” said Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at Sunnyvale, Cal.-based RedSeal, Inc. “I can just go on to the next one.”