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In 2021, the highest average cost of a data breach in 17 years was recorded.
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The most common cause of data breaches was theft of user credentials, in 2021.
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In 2021, every second, 14 people around the world were victims of a cyber attack.
Today more than ever the world is connected and all this is due to digital growth and the internet. All this panorama is being visualized by businessmen who this year seem to be more concerned about the problems that this connectivity can generate, which is why various studies warn that we are prone to a global cyberattack.
The internet brought many tools for humanity, but since it is a world, there are also some terms that we must know. As defined by IBM, cyber attacks are unwanted attempts to steal, expose, alter, disable or destroy information through unauthorized access to systems.
In this sense, according to data from the United Nations (UN) in 2021, every second, 14 people around the world were victims of a cyberattack. Given this data, it is estimated that this reality could represent up to 2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the internet black market.
For its part, a study carried out by the consulting firm PwC, in 2022, reported that more than 50 percent of companies around the world expect a rebound in cyberthreats. Where, the set of managers participating in the study, the attacks that will grow the most next year are those that target cloud services and ransomware with 57 percent. Followed by malware downloaded via software updates and attacks on supply chain software and corporate email at 56 percent.
current picture
A new report released on the sidelines of the Davos Forum revealed that 86 percent of the world’s business leaders believe a serious cyberattack is likely. “catastrophic for all” in the next two years, mainly because of geopolitical instability.
The report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the consulting firm Accenture, lThe leaders are concerned that these cyber attackers are changing their strategy and are now primarily seeking to damage the reputation of the companies they attack.
That is why 93 percent of cybersecurity experts believe that societies are threatened by this type of attack. Being, the sector that is most concerned about this problem, that of public energy services, where according to research, a quarter of businessmen believe that “They lack the necessary skills to act in the face of an attack of this type.”
The investigation highlighted that after this uncertainty, currently the cybersecurity conditions in the different countries also they are decisive for half of the entrepreneurs when deciding where to launch new businesses or investments.
It is because of that the willingness of managers to assume changes in the cybersecurity of their companies is majority, according to the report, but only 2 percent of employers are not willing to face them.
This data is recurring, since in the fourth Veeam Company Annual Data Protection Trends Reportfound that enterprises are challenged by more complex hybrid IT environments and Budgets are increasing to prevent cyberattacks and keep up as production environments continue to diversify across multiple clouds.
Likewise, the report from the Software company stated that IT leaders feel that they are not sufficiently protected. “One of the top priorities for organizations this year is to improve the reliability and success of backups, followed by ensuring that infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) protection is equitable with the protection in which trusted for data center-focused workloads”claims research that surveyed 4,200 unbiased IT leaders and implementers from around the world and organizations of all sizes.
Said source also highlights that in this 2023, data protection budgets are increasing globally, where organizations want to increase their budget on this issue by 6.5 percent.
“Of the 85 percent, of organizations that plan to increase their data protection budgets, their average planned increase is 8.3 percent, and, often in conjunction with increased investments in cybersecurity tools,” he says.
Given all this, and as a great issue that is in the eye of world business leaders and as a growing concern, both investigations stress the importance of developing a common language and metrics for the boards of directors of the main companies, it may be a priority.
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