Cybercrime is on-going, but many breaches could be prevented

Cybercrime is on-going, but many breaches could be prevented

Last year was dubbed the “worst ever” by the Online Trust Alliance for data breaches and cyber incidents around the world. Interestingly, it revealed that 93% of the breaches recorded in 2017 could have been prevented. And with cybercrime continuing to make the headlines, this year hasn’t seen much improvement. Niroshan Rajadurai, director of sales and field engineering EMEA at Semmle, software specialists, believes that industry is going wrong and failing to address the problems of cybercrime correctly.

“Software is ‘eating’ the world” Rajadurai explains. “Right now, we’re in the Software Age. Digitalisation is being embraced by more businesses all the time; companies are taking traditional processes and integrating Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities into them.”

By Bethan Grylls

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