We are living in a far more technologically-advanced world than we were as a decade ago. It’s a world that is networked together and average broadband speeds have increased by roughly five-fold in the last decade, making it possible for businesses and individuals to do far more online. This rise in the widespread use of technology brought with it a rise in crime too. For hackers, the possibilities increased exponentially, along with the potential rewards.
With endless technical innovation, new dangers are continuously coming to the surface. For example, data migration to third-party cloud providers has created an epicenter of data and as a result, more chances to misappropriate critical information from a single target. Likewise, mobile phones are now targets, escalating the opportunities to infiltrate security measures and the development of the Internet of Things, which enables communication between machines, is said to be responsible for a boost in information misuse.
