U.S. companies, even small and medium size, are more and more exposed to cyber threats from organized crime, foreign intelligence services, and probably terrorist organizations.

85 percent of U.S. critical infrastructure is owned and operated by private companies -- and these companies are especially vulnerable to determined attacks which may ruin or seriously disrupt company operations

The FBI and the U.S. intelligence community know the threats that corporate America is under from both foreign intelligence services and global organized crime, but they typical business person probably does not.

Tom Patterson, chief security officer at MagTek, writes in Computerworld that these combined communities do a commendable job understanding potential threats to business information systems, ranging from corporate espionage, insider threats, organized crime, theft of property, and even foreign government attacks. What they have not yet mastered, though, is how best to use this information to reach out and help the million small and mid-sized companies that make up the bulk of America’s critical infrastructure.

If your company works in a critical infrastructure sector (read more here from DHS), you face greater threats than the shops down the street making pizza, pillows, or perfume. If your business is directly or indirectly working in any one of these 17 sectors, there are foreign intelligence services from nations both friendly and not so friendly that are looking at you as domino in a line to destabilize America

“No longer is it safe to hide behind your relatively small size or remote locations.”

Source: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/cyber-threats-now-targeting-traditional-companies?page=0,0