Hotel Owner Hotel Owner July 2017 digital | Page 38

ADVICE | CYBER SECURITY HOW CYBER GANGS SELECT AND BREAK TARGETS It’s important to understand that cybercrime is an industry – it’s not the reserve of lone operators who know how to hack from the comfort of their bedroom. As an industry, the scale of this criminal enterprise is far greater than many business owners realise. JAMES CARSON, chief executive of Support Tree, explains how organised crime is targeting the IT in hotels suddenly and with real focus, targeted by criminals that can leave your IT wide hotels and resorts to compromise the credit open to attack, relies on tricki