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so many inexperienced staffs would not know that and they would pass through the real hell being so
scared that no one would trust them or they could cope with some restrictions for not dealing with the
enough evidence at that moment. So, in our opinion – such a situation could get prevented and the entire
traumatic impact could get reduced if the employees would know how to handle such a case. For
instance, it’s important to teach your staffs to respond so appropriately to that occurrence and it’s needed
to suggest to everyone that there must exist the certain level of the trust amongst the team’s members.
Well, if your heavy work has been destroyed in any sense while you were operating in the cyberspace,
you are definitely the victim of the illegal activity and only that could be quite traumatic to your mental
health state. In other words, it would seem that we are still on the search to the accurate responses to
these occurrences, so at this stage, it’s crucial to understand that we need to protect our assets as well
as people the best we can.

Assumption #6. Cyber operations need skillful hackers.

Explanation #6. Hacking is easy if you have someone’s IP address and the rest of the access details.
There are so many professional tracking tools that could support you to track anyone’s accounts on.
Simply the black market would get in possession of these effective applications and the bad guys would
so massively exploit these gadgets. The reasons why the black market has become overwhelmed with
such software is the never ending insider threat challenge. In other words, someone from the legal system
would sell those products to the malicious actors not caring at all about the possible consequences to
the community. Also, we would notice that there are a lot of email address hunting tools that could serve
for discovering someone business account details and once you get someone’s email address you would
not need his password as the professional security tool would give you the tracking permissions. In
addition, if you are playing with someone’s email detail – it’s quite clear that you can easily conduct the
phishing campaign that would offer you much more access information. So, once you get enough data
to make a breach to someone’s device – you would be in position to expose the entire network and make
some changes regarding those IT assets. The experience would show that the hackers are so skillful
guys and they can do a lot in order to offer the access to any digital environment. Indeed, there are a
plenty of the social engineering techniques that could get applied in order to threaten everything –
including the both – physical and virtual security. If anyone believes being the hacker is easy task, he is
purely mistaken. The practice would suggest that those guys are outstandingly intelligent and quite quick
in the cyberspace. Maybe someone would formulate the strategy on what is needed to get done in sense
of either psychological or profit making operations and those cyber criminals would just find the way to
accomplish such a requirement. So, as it is quite well-known there is the entire black market on the
Darknet that would offer you a plenty of services beginning with the narcotics distribution, over contract
murder, until the rent-a-hacker services. In other words, anyone getting the capacity to make the strategy
could pay to the member of the cybercrime underworld to conduct some cyber operation that could cope
with the wide spectrum of feasible applications and usages. Some studies would show that those hacker’s
groups would function as the enterprises that would get capable to make the billions of dollars per an
annum. In other words, if the terrorists or any transnational crime groups make a decision to attack
anyone in order to do some sort of intimidation or cyber warfare – they would rent so skillful professional
hackers that would so smoothly deliver those campaigns. Apparently, so many cyber terrorists would
have the capabilities to provide the cyber operations in order to intimidate as many people as they can
and in such a case – it’s clear that even those bad guys could deal with the exceptional hacking skills.

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