HP Labs joins global insurer Lloyd’s to warn against a growing threat

惠普实验室协同全球著名的保险公司劳合社，针对日益严重的网络威胁发出警告

Terrorists, hackers, criminal gangs, disgruntled employees and industrial spies are the stuff of Hollywood movies.  But they’re an increasing – and widely underestimated – threat in the very real world of business, too.

在当今的社会，恐怖分子、黑客、犯罪团伙、心怀不满的员工、商业间谍等都已不再只出现在好莱坞电影当中，他们正藏在在真实的商业圈中伺机行动，而他们所带来的威胁却往往被人们所低估。

That’s the conclusion of a new report from Lloyd’s, the world’s leading specialist insurance market and HP Labs, home to some of the planet’s foremost information security researchers.

以上结论并非危言耸听，而是来自世界领先的保险市场专家——劳合社，和业界最重要的信息安全研究机构——惠普实验室，共同完成的一份最新的研究报告。

Their report, “Managing digital risks: trends, issues and implications for business,” examines recent trends in cyber crime and warns that as businesses become more reliant on technology, they open themselves to increasing risks on a variety of fronts.

报告的名称是：“趋势、问题以及对于企业的影响”。报告分析了网络犯罪的最新趋势，并警告说，随着企业越来越依赖科技，变得越来越开放，使得其有可能面临更多方面的风险。

In detailing those risks the report notes that some, like extortion and theft, are not new. But technology has increased the speed at which they can occur and amplified their impact.

该报告中详细指出，像敲诈和盗窃等网络犯罪行为，已不是什么新鲜事。而技术的飞速发展会使得该犯罪行为对企业的危害变得更加巨大。

“Whilst the benefits of the cyber revolution are undisputable, we need to look at the implications of our dependency on IT,” notes Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Levene in his forward to the report. “We need to carry out proper assessments of the risks we face,” he adds, “and put in place mechanisms to protect our digital data and processes towards uniform global regulation around cyber crime.”

 “虽然网络革命带来的好处无可非议，但也同样需要审视我们过于依赖IT的问题，”劳合社主席Lord Levene在报告序言中指出，“我们需要正确的认识风险，”他补充说，“还要提出机制来保护我们的数字化数据，并使针对网络犯罪的处理流程形成统一的全球规则。”

Thanks to the complexity and shifting nature of modern cyber threats, many businesses are both under-protected and unclear about how to become more secure.  The proper response, the report suggests, is for cyber crime to be seen as much more than just a problem to be tackled at the IT department level.

现代网络威胁具有复杂与狡猾的特性，这使得许多企业疏于防护，企业并不清楚如何做才会更安全。该报告建议，对于网络犯罪的正确反应，绝不仅仅是企业IT部门范畴内才需要解决，而应上升到整个企业层面。

Among the highlights of the report are recommendations that:

该报告的要点建议包括：

• risk needs to become a board-level concern
• 该风险应得到公司高层的关注
• companies must acknowledge that risks to cyber security are likely only to grow and become ever more complex
• 公司必须认识到，网络安全风险很可能会增加并变得更加复杂
• companies understand that the range, frequency, scale and sophistication of attacks is likely to increase
• 公司必须认识到，所受到攻击的范围、频率、规模和复杂程度很可能会增加
• risk managers need to develop comprehensive risk management strategies to mitigate against the variety of threats that they face
• 风险管理者需要制定全面的风险管理战略，以减轻他们所面临的各种威胁
• governments, industries and companies all need to work closer together to tackle increasing cyber attacks
• 行业和公司需要更为密切的合作以阻止不断增加的网络攻击

 “Managing Digital Risks” is a publication of the Lloyd’s 360 Risk Insight program  and is available for download online. Its principal authors are HP Labs Senior Researcher Adrian Baldwin and HP Labs Senior Research Manger Simon Shiu. Both specialize in security research as members of HP’s Cloud and Security Lab (CSL).

“管理数字化风险”是劳合社发布的“360风险洞察计划”的出版物，并可在线下载，其主要作者是惠普实验室高级研究员Adrian Baldwin和惠普实验室高级研究经理Simon Shiu。他们都是惠普云和安全实验室的（CSL）成员，专注于安全领域的研究。

In marking the report’s publication, Senior Vice President, Research and Director of HP Labs Prith Banerjee notes that “this collaborative research effort demonstrates HP’s focus on innovation with a purpose.”

对于该报告的出版，惠普高级副总裁，惠普实验室研究主任Prith Baneriee指出，“这项与劳合社合作研究的成果，显示了惠普为实现目标而致力于创新的态度。”

“The combination of Lloyd’s corporate view of risk with HP Labs’ knowledge of future technology trends and information security,” he adds, “has enabled us to provide companies with impactful information about the digital threats facing businesses worldwide.

他补充说：“劳合社对风险的视点与惠普实验室未来科技趋势和信息安全的知识完美的结合在一起，面对未来大量的数字化威，我们帮助企业建立全球范围内的信息保障。”