The allure of cybercrime is the anonymity it affords behind layers of technological protection: an alias, a TOR (The Onion Router) network, a virtual private network (VPN), a pseudonymous Bitcoin wallet. For an organization under siege, the inability to unveil a hacker’s identity is all the more excruciating.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...