IMAGINING TOMORROW: BUSINESS FUTURES | 74 OCTOBER 1, 2023 Do you trust the verified On a happier note, you were What were the lessons newsfeed? in the news again this week learned from that incident? KH: You can’t entirely trust anything when ThingSafe became the KH: It revealed how ill-prepared these days, can you? However, it’s first company to achieve an many organizations are. We saw a useful tool, and I do think we’re AAA score from Securating. people locked out of their homes, getting better at verification. I How high a standard does cars stopping in the middle of the don’t know if you saw it, but it was that represent? highway, holoployees bumped briefly—and erroneously—reported KH: It means there’s nothing we off their corporate platforms, XR that the CIA had announced that it think they could reasonably do to shopping malls unable to take was a “state-sponsored” terrorist increase their security. Of course, payments. One of the things we attack, and people started freaking we’re not saying it’s impossible to assess in the Securating process out. Thankfully, that was rapidly hack them. Nobody is bulletproof. is how robust a company’s shut down. It now looks like it was And, like every company, there’s contingency plans are for such a domestic extremist. a limit to what they can do when outages. Obviously, in many cases a cyber attack takes the Internet those plans were inadequate, offline, as happened across the to say the least. East Coast last Tuesday. THE WORLD OF REDESIGNING THE IMAGINATION TTHHE AE AGGE OE OFF “TECHNO-POLITICS” LIFE ECONOMY ((IINN))SESECUCURITRITYY