Rarely do hackers provide an inside look at how they carry out a cyber-attack, and even more rarely are they impressed with a company’s security countermeasures. A new report offers insight into both, revealing how best to defend against an attack from the perspective of the hackers themselves.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...