5 Fact About Hacker💻 || Probably🤔 You Don't Know👌

 Intro 

The cybersecurity industry is rapidly growing every day. Although more resources are being deployed to counter cyber attacks, the nature of the industry still has a long way to go before we can, as a whole, catch up with these threats. It’s important for us to define what the current information security and cybersecurity industry look like considering these 5 Fact About Hacker💻 || Probably🤔 You Don't Know👌.

Fact 1:

1. There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds

A Clark School study at the University of Maryland is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access— every 39 seconds on average, affecting one in three Americans every year —and the non-secure usernames and passwords we use that give attackers more chance of success.

Fact 2 :

2. The global average cost of a data breach is $3.9 million across SMBs

For most businesses this is sum is crippling – not only monetarily but in reputation. For public companies, the cost is much greater since more is at stake, on average a data breach at a publicly-traded company would cost $116 million.

Fact 3:

3.  9.7 Million Records healthcare records were compromised in September 2020 alone

According to the HIPAA Journal, “83 breaches were attributed to hacking/IT incidents and 9,662,820 records were exposed in those breaches”.

Fact 4:

8. Approximately $6 trillion is expected to be spent globally on cybersecurity by 2021

Organizations need to make a fundamental change in their approach to cybersecurity and reprioritize budgets to align with this newly defined reality of our modern society.

Fact 5:

10. Unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide is already over 4 million

More than 500,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74% over the past five years. Of those jobs, cybersecurity engineers are some of the highest-paid positions started at $140K annually on average.

Bonus 

Fact 6:

12. More than 77% of organizations do not have a Cyber Security Incident Response plan

What’s worse? An estimated 54% of companies say they have experienced one or more attacks in the last 12 months.