Cisco today launched its Annual Internet Report, which assesses mobile, Wi-Fi and fixed broadband networking with quantitative projections on the growth of users, devices and connections over a five-year forecast period (2018–2023).
The most alarming finding: the number of cyberattacks will double by 2023.
Specifically:
- Cyberattacks will double from 9 million in 2018 to 15.4 million by 2023 globally.
- The peak attack size has increased 63% year-over-year (YoY).
- There has been a 776% growth in attacks between 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps YoY.
- The average distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is 1 Gbps, which is disruptive enough to take most organizations completely offline.
