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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 16 2017, @01:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-am-in-the-wrong-profession dept.

From www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/a3460256.html

Rapidly becoming more important than even the 24/7 hairdresser, the social media manager and the "paleo genius" personal chef, top cyber-security consultants are the most in-demand for the super-rich, business tycoons and the A-list as they look to keep their embarrassing secrets, naked photos and diva-ish demands out of the hands of hackers.

After Beckileaks, those consultants might just be ramping up their rates because, for brand-reliant celebrities, the financial damage, reputational risk and sheer embarrassment of such revelations are one of the most serious threats to their careers.

[...] Benjamin Arnold, whose SORTED personal management firm acts as a fixer for London's super-rich, says "There's been a definite increase in concern about cyber-protection among high-net-worth [HNW] and celebrity clients, especially following hacking incidents such as the [Lawrence] iCloud hack which exposed — quite literally — a number of high-profile celebrities. We are all exposed to the same risk but high-profile or HNW individuals are at a much bigger threat, as the value of their assets make them more of a target."

His clients will pay "anything from £2,500 up to £15,000 for a security sweep" and another £5,000 for training, "putting in best practice for the family, just as you would for locking up the house". It's small cash for some celebs, who believe that a brutal data-hack could cost them their career.

[...] Consultants say one-off "cyber-hygiene" sessions, costing as much as £3,000, are increasingly popular: tech sleuths will comb through clients' smartphones, laptops, tablets, external hard drives and cloud accounts, set up two-factor authentication (where logging into, say, a Gmail or Twitter account involves filling in a unique code that's sent to a smartphone), work on complex passwords (and insist on clients using different ones for every account), set up encrypted email services and install cyber-security software onto their home and work networks.


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:29PM (#467789)

    The hottest jobs are hairdresser and telephone sanitiser. This story is familiar.

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  • (Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:43PM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Thursday February 16 2017, @02:43PM (#467796)

    Take your upmod you dirty geek!

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 16 2017, @08:50PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 16 2017, @08:50PM (#467952)

    Opening more land to logging and fracking, as well as defunding the EPA, are necessary steps before adopting the leaf as our currency.

    • (Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Friday February 17 2017, @02:08AM

      by el_oscuro (1711) on Friday February 17 2017, @02:08AM (#468042)

      Now that we have all become extremely rich, we have a slight problem with inflation due to the availability of leaves. So we are going reduce the monetary supply by burning down the forests. That will work well.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:35AM (#468102)

    It's blindingly obvious: let's pack them all into Australia and launch it towards Mars.