The real costs of cybercrime
Infographic updated: IT services company Unisys recently released its biannual Unisys Security Index, which tracks perceptions about Internet security across a variety of topics that affect both enterprise IT and consumers. Not surprisingly, the latest study, which surveyed more than 11,000 people across 12 countries, found that many have already been victims of cybercrime, are worried it will happen again and — in some areas — are willing to undertake or support some rather extreme efforts to stop the problem.
However, as the infographic below illustrates, it doesn’t matter whose data is targeted in cyberattacks for the companies left trying resolve events: They are going to pay a lot of money for damage control and to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. That makes you wonder who has more to lose from cybercrime, consumers or the companies charged with protecting their data and helping mitigate consumer losses.
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I guess the point of hacker’s going after big enterprises or personal accounts with credit cards associated to them is some kind of financial return.
But it’s those other hackers, the more prevalent that are a bigger nuisance to everyone. The one’s who seek to sabotage businesses or just as a personal ‘trophy’ or an immature prank who are going to reign in a system where everyone will agree that anyone who accesses the internet will have the right to do so only by signing in through Facial Recognition as their gateway.
Only then will a face correspond to an IP adress. Hopefully there will be less cyber crime as a result. Hacker’s are ultimately driven to out smart technology so who knows what will come when Facial Recognition isn’t enough.