Know The Most Likely Adversary

Organizations with payment systems should understand that their systems and employees will be the target of credit card thieves. Gaming industry executives understand that criminal elements wage denial of service attacks against systems and attempt to probe and cause system downtime.  The energy sector, especially organizations involved in energy exploration activities in certain regions of the world, know they must safeguard confidential trade agreements and other documents due to a substantial amount of cyberespionage activity from nation-states and competitors.