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GovernMenT spendinG worldwide
on cybersecurity has increased at an
average annual rate of 14.5 per cent
between 2006 and 2017, outpacing
procurement in every other type of
major government program.
U.S. Government will invest over $19
billion for cybersecurity in 2017.
passwords
300 billion passwords will be at risk by 2020
8.2 million passwords stolen daily
95 passwords stolen every second
• Cybersecurity workforce shortage expected to reach 1.5 million by 2019
• Nearly half of all cyber-attacks are committed against small businesses.
daTa ThreaTs To Guard aGainsT
• Adware
• Anonymizing proxy
• Autorun worm
• Backdoor Trojan
• Boot Sector Malware
• Botnet
• Browser Hijacker
• Brute Force Attack
• Chain Letter
• Data Leakage
• Data Loss
• Data Theft
• Denial of Service Attack
• DNS Hijacking
• Document Malware
• Drive-by Download
• Email Malware
• Hacktivism
• Internet Worm
• Keylogging
• Malware
• Phishing
• Potentially Unwanted Application
• Ransomware
• Spearphishing
• Spoofing
• Spyware
• SQL Injection
• Trojan
• Virus
Source: Cybersecurity Ventures, BI Intelligence, TechSci Research, IDC, Mid-Atlantic Research
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