Manufacturers have an especially intriguing challenge when it comes to cyber security. Not only do they face the security threats many other types of businesses are confronting, but they also have to deal with the growing presence of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Attacks on cloud systems and infrastructure are costly. Consider the recent massive distributed denial of service attack aimed at the Internet infrastructure company Dyn. The attack dragged down Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify, Tumblr, Twitter and others. The network congestion was largely made possible by compromised IoT devices including video cameras and digital video recorders.
Cybersecurity market to exceed $100 billion by 2020; financial losses caused by cybercrime to reach $2 trillion
The fear of being hacked, of losing confidential information or state secrets, or of being blackmailed to get them back will drive annual global cybersecurity spending above $100 billion by 2020, according to IDC, cited by HOTforSecurity. Banking will make the most significant expenditure – $8.6 million – and the US will be the largest market. On the other hand, it’s been estimated that cybercrime led to financial losses of more than $500 billion in 2015 alone, potentially doubling that in 2016, and reaching $2 trillion by 2019.
Massive Yahoo Data Breach Shows Vulnerabilities of Entertainment, Media and Communications Companies
Some reports called it quite possibly the largest data breach of all time. Internet entertainment, news and search site Yahoo announced on Sept. 22, 2016 that a recent investigation by the company confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it thinks is a state-sponsored actor.
Domain name hijacking – what it is, and how you can stop your company being the next victim
How do you think your customers would feel if they visited your business’s website one day and were greeted with an offensive image, malicious code, religious propaganda or a form designed to steal their passwords?
CSA hopes its move will provide actionable and useful IoT security guidance
Four Business Security Concerns (Still) Looming Over Open-Source Software
Increased adoption of open source software is changing the way companies do business, bringing transformational benefits such as increased innovation, cost savings and accelerated time to market.
Companies will invest more in security solutions, driving overall Enterprise Security market growth.
With cybercrime shifting from user-targeted attacks to organization-targeted attacks, it stands to reason that the sophistication of their tools and malicious code has also increased. Employing advanced evasion and persistence techniques to infiltrate and compromise an organization, their goal has remained constant: to make money.
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