Cybersecurity Market Research in the 21st Century
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:01 am
With the increasing global importance and integration of computers into all aspects of human endeavor, cybercrime has proliferated and now presents a serious risk to populations, nations, governments, businesses, and critical infrastructures. It’s been estimated that internet-generated criminal activity costs the world’s economy in excess of $400 billion annually. 1 The monetary price and potential dangers of cyber criminality will certainly continue to grow if left unchecked.
Attacks to our energy infrastructure are perhaps the most potentially disastrous. Initiated by hacktivists, adversarial governments, rogue states, quasi-religious factions, alone or in tandem, computer attacks are increasing and in some cases they are succeeding in permeating the perimeters of often outdated or inadequate infrastructural bulwarks. The implications of such criminal efforts are ominous. Imagine water treatment facilities, energy pipelines, telecommunications, satellite australia mobile number list free systems, banking institutions, and power plants being disabled or even destroyed by cyber attacks. The consequences of such incursions could spawn anxiety and even chaos among affected populations, while economies are seriously weakened and damaged.
Every moment, those behind this burgeoning cyber criminality are growing technologically more advanced and are looking for ways to disrupt, sabotage, and compromise critical infrastructural systems in acts of espionage, political maneuvering, terrorism, and outright war. In 2013 alone, Homeland Security officials in the US reported 256 incidents of attempted cyber crime aimed at critical infrastructure with most of these centered in the energy sector. 2 Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta went so far as to claim that the US was confronting a menace that he referred to as a He painted a dire picture of potentially contaminated water supplies, sprawling blackouts, and of trains being forcibly derailed.3
Attacks to our energy infrastructure are perhaps the most potentially disastrous. Initiated by hacktivists, adversarial governments, rogue states, quasi-religious factions, alone or in tandem, computer attacks are increasing and in some cases they are succeeding in permeating the perimeters of often outdated or inadequate infrastructural bulwarks. The implications of such criminal efforts are ominous. Imagine water treatment facilities, energy pipelines, telecommunications, satellite australia mobile number list free systems, banking institutions, and power plants being disabled or even destroyed by cyber attacks. The consequences of such incursions could spawn anxiety and even chaos among affected populations, while economies are seriously weakened and damaged.
Every moment, those behind this burgeoning cyber criminality are growing technologically more advanced and are looking for ways to disrupt, sabotage, and compromise critical infrastructural systems in acts of espionage, political maneuvering, terrorism, and outright war. In 2013 alone, Homeland Security officials in the US reported 256 incidents of attempted cyber crime aimed at critical infrastructure with most of these centered in the energy sector. 2 Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta went so far as to claim that the US was confronting a menace that he referred to as a He painted a dire picture of potentially contaminated water supplies, sprawling blackouts, and of trains being forcibly derailed.3