Respond to an internet attack:
Problem:
Employees, business partners, customers, journalists and competitors of a pharmaceutical company receive an email saying that company leaders are corrupt and its products are expired or lethal. The attack is aimed at all the important business circles: the heart of the company, its partners, its competitors, and the media. The desired impact of the attack is to destroy the brand and the business.
Approach:
IIdentify the source of these messages and the modus operandi of the attack. Evaluate the effects of the propagation and implement a counter-attack strategy.
Answer:
The team of Ameris Consulting assists the pharmaceutical group with a crisis cell, an informational counter-attack and develops an investigation to identify the cyber criminal. As a second measure, security and reputation management recommendations are addressed to the group management.