I want to throw around some theories.

Cyberwar, a term used widely in the news lately appears to be applied to attacks on nation-states, and very appropriately so.

Not spoken of very often are the attacks on and silent war by cyber criminals against corporations around the world.

Case in point is Friday’s Wall Street Journal front page article entitled “Accounts Raided In Global Bank Hack.” The main reason this war is not widely spoken about is that most attacks on private business go unreported. News of a security breach is potentially devastating to most private businesses. When the police are called in or get involved, it gets reported.

Despite the fact that statistically breaches on large corporations, like TJ Max, do not necessarily harm the corporation, who wants to take the chance of a damaged reputation they can’t recover from? But this is merely stating the obvious. As the potential for cyberwar increases nation-states continue to develop tools or weapons and strategies. So, what can corporations do besides detect, clean up, and re-secure their networks? Determine attribution? Huge problem. Comments, thoughts? Watch for some more thoughts on this topic and others.