In an interview with Business Insider, security researcher Chris Vickery discusses discovering major data breaches, and why organizations continue to suffer cyberattacks. Vickery, who discovered the Systema Software and voting record breaches last year, talked about the growing number of cybercrimes. “It’s profitable not to be secure. I think that’s the problem,” said Vickery. “It’s that businesses that operate in an insecure manner are making money still, and even when they get caught not acting securely there isn’t a big enough penalty to persuade them otherwise.” Vickery also believes organizations should face tougher fines when an attack occurs. “I don’t necessarily think the government needs to regulate things like this, but there needs to be bigger penalties,” said Vickery. “I think the fines and the investigations when something does go wrong need to be so nightmarish that no company would even risk it.” Editor’s Note: The IAPP will be hosting a Data Breach Bootcamp workshop at the Privacy. Security. Risk. conference from Sept. 13-16 in San Jose, California.
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