CYBER CRIME IS A MULTI MILLION POUND business. In the UK alone, the Cabinet Office estimates the cost of cyber crime to be in the region £27bn every year, and that number is only snowballing as we move towards a society where everything and everyone perpetually relies on information, and nothing is obscure.
We have become almost entirely dependent on the continued availability,
accuracy and confidentiality of information and communications technology. But as well as significant benefits, this has enabled old crimes to be committed in new and more subtle ways, meaning that as tech progresses, so do the criminals relying on it.
Cyber crime, hacks and data breaches are becoming more prevent, and within the last couple of years, they have hit some of the world's biggest service providers. It's now not a matter of if your company will get breached, but when, and what can be done to try and prevent the inevitable.
Security has now passed well beyond hacking for fun and is now often fuelled by the potential to obtain large quantities of money without physically robbing a bank. Major conglomerates are being targeted, and real people are having their personal information and finances put at risk every day.
So in five years' time, as technology becomes even more pervasive and cyber criminals find it even easier to take advantage of organisations that at the same time are taking more security precautions, how will the threat landscape look?
Read More: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2433753/the-future-of-internet-security
We have become almost entirely dependent on the continued availability,
accuracy and confidentiality of information and communications technology. But as well as significant benefits, this has enabled old crimes to be committed in new and more subtle ways, meaning that as tech progresses, so do the criminals relying on it.
Cyber crime, hacks and data breaches are becoming more prevent, and within the last couple of years, they have hit some of the world's biggest service providers. It's now not a matter of if your company will get breached, but when, and what can be done to try and prevent the inevitable.
Security has now passed well beyond hacking for fun and is now often fuelled by the potential to obtain large quantities of money without physically robbing a bank. Major conglomerates are being targeted, and real people are having their personal information and finances put at risk every day.
So in five years' time, as technology becomes even more pervasive and cyber criminals find it even easier to take advantage of organisations that at the same time are taking more security precautions, how will the threat landscape look?
Read More: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2433753/the-future-of-internet-security
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