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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Top 5 cybersecurity facts, figures and statistics for 2017

December 19, 2017 by Sachin Shah Leave a Comment

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3153707/security/top-5-cybersecurity-facts-figures-and-statistics-for-2017.html

This article was shocking. First of all between now and 2021 cyber-security spending will exceed 1 TRILLION. What is more amazing is that that 1 trillion is not enough as hackers will commit cyber-security crimes that will result in totals of over 6 trillion. I am curious how the numbers were calculated for those 2 stats. What did not surpise me is how the article detailed the amount of open security jobs and that the number of people using the internet will continue to increase rapidly. Lastly ransomware throughout the worldwide damage was roughly 5 billion. The article conclusion was very true: “During the next five years, cyber crime might become the greatest threat to every person, place and thing in the world.”

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