The recent Sony hack should be a warning to all corporate entities operating in the world today.  Watch as the walls of this massive company come down and private correspondence of top level executives bleed onto the internet exposing not only their own trade secrets, but the trade secrets of other, equally powerful, studio entities working alongside them.  As a self-proclaimed nerd and lover of movies, I enjoyed this weekend very much, reading the private emails between poor Amy Pascal and some of my favorite directors and movie producers.  I found out a great deal of information about my favorite comic book heroes and the studio’s upcoming plans for them.  I read emails of a few executives, bad mouthing top-level acting talent. And I even read the new James Bond Script: Spectre.

But through all this “fun,” I can’t help but have this sickening feeling in my gut; this voice in my head that is getting louder telling me that we are entering a new age of corporate takeover.  Whether this attack was done by the self-named “Guardians of Peace,” or North Korean Militants, or hell, some 14-year-old in his parents’ basement who was getting back at Sony for Skyfall , the end result is the same: hackers are getting good… really good, and corporations are thinking of security in terms of “nice to have components,” not necessities of business in the modern world.

Tx Systems’ top solution centers around smart card PKI security.  For those of you who don’t know, PKI uses digital certificates to authenticate to a network, encrypt and decrypt emails, and digitally sign documents.  That’s right, I said encrypt and decrypt emails so they cannot be read by anyone who does not have the ability to decrypt them on the other side.  To put this in perspective, this is the same technology that the US Federal Government has used for over a decade to keep their secrets secret.  We have worked really hard this year along with our favorite PKI manufacturers to educate the market and present a nice package for corporations.  And while we have helped secure some valuable customers that I am proud of, we have also heard something that is troubling to me.  About half the time I personally have made a proposal this year, I received the response, “Well that all sounds great, but this is not a priority for us at the moment.”

Not a priority?

When will it be a priority, I wonder? Because when your emails are being shared online, and your name is hash-tagged on Twitter, I promise you it is already too late.

If I had one wish for corporations in 2015 it would be to consider security as a TOP PRIORITY. Do your research. Figure out ways to protect yourselves, because it is only going to get worse in the coming years. Enterprise is a battle for sales and profit. I get that. But you don’t go into battle without your shield, do you?

For more info on how Tx Systems can help, please contact sales@txsystems.com