Hacks and data breaches are, unfortunately, part of doing business today. Ten years ago, it was the largest corporations that were most targeted by hackers, but that has changed. As large organizations have improved their cybersecurity, and more and more small businesses go online, hackers have shifted their attention to smaller targets.
The threat
Putting numbers on the scale of cybercrime is difficult, not least because many companies are resistant to acknowledging that they’ve been hacked.