Preventing The Bezos Phone Hack And The Need For Personal Cybersecurity

By Roderick Jones, Rubica

We all make assumptions about an individual’s relative resources and capabilities based on their career. For example, you don’t expect the CEO of Goldman Sachs to go broke and you wouldn’t expect the CEO of Starbucks to serve you the perfect cup of tea. Therefore, when the CEO of the world’s biggest tech company is the subject to a massive personal data breach, it should raise a thoughtful eyebrow.

Deciphering the Bezos hack

Watching recent news about the Jeff Bezos phone hack has created a mental disconnect for many who are following the story. If you are one of the richest men in the world running one of the most powerful technology companies in the world, then your iPhone shouldn’t be so easily hacked.

Innovation and investment in enterprise-level cybersecurity has not been matched for individuals. When cybersecurity first became important around 15-20 years ago, most people worked in a traditional corporation at a desk and cyberattacks were primarily directed at corporations. It is no longer the case that most people work within a monolithic corporate structure and attacks are no longer limited to large enterprises.