Company had “no playbook” – Michael Lynton

The chief executive of Sony Pictures, Michael Lynton says that they had no precedent planning to deal with the hacking attack based on the scale it hit the company.

According to Michael Lynton his company had “no playbook” on how to respond.

In an all-around interview with the Associated Press, he also explained the grade and scale of the attack, for which North Korea has been blamed by US government.

However according to one security expert Sony should have spotted the danger and could have prepared crisis plans.

As Lynton said, soon after the attack was discovered, his firm scattered to restore communications, brought the old phones into light and worked out the methods to pay staff with paper Cheques.

‘Adequately prepared’

“We are the canary in the coal mine, that’s for sure,” he informed the Associated Press.

“There’s no playbook for this, so you are in essence trying to look at the situation as it unfolds and make decisions without being able to refer to a lot of experiences you’ve had in the past or other people’s experiences. You’re on completely new ground.”

He also talked about the scale of data loss his company had suffered to the agency.

“They came in the house, stole everything, then burned down the house. They destroyed servers, computers, wiped them clean of all the data and took all the data.”

He suggested his firm was “adequately prepared” but “just not for an attack of this nature”, which according to him no firm could have withstood.

The hackers didn’t stop with a series of leaks; they threatened further attacks over Sony Pictures’ satiric comedy, The Interview, which was based on an assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un release.

After the threats, many cinemas declined to screen the Christmas premier and Sony Pictures drew the film altogether.

“Every time you thought you were going down a path, every time people thought we’ve got this in hand, the next thing you knew we’d have another threatening email come through two days later or another series of events“

Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures Chief Executive

But it was later released online. Lynton insisted that the studio always planned some sort of release but did not know how to carry it out.

Though, it was released later online. As per Lynton the studio had a plan to release it in some sort but had no idea to carry the release.