{"id":8213,"date":"2018-04-05T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2018-02-15T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:31:54","slug":"cybersecurity-businesses-fight-back-against-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cybersecurity-businesses-fight-back-against-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberSecurity: Businesses Fight Back Against Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses are fighting a cyberwar.\u00a0 Cybercrime damages totaled $3 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow to $6 trillion by 2021, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/hackerpocalypse-cybercrime-report-2016\/\">report by Cyber Security Ventures<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a massive amount of money. To fend off possible losses, businesses are ramping up on cybersecurity defenses and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3219165\/it-careers\/gartner-worldwide-information-security-spending-to-hit-93b-in-2018.html\">expected to spend an aggregate of over $1 trillion<\/a> from 2017 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/our-team\/\">Steve Morgan<\/a>, Editor-In-Chief at Cyber Security Ventures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3210912\/security\/is-cybercrime-the-greatest-threat-to-every-company-in-the-world.html\">said that<\/a> &#8220;Cybercriminal activity is one of the biggest challenges that humanity will face in the next two decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginni_Rometty\">Ginni Rometty<\/a>, IBM&#8217;s chairman, president and CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevemorgan\/2015\/11\/24\/ibms-ceo-on-hackers-cyber-crime-is-the-greatest-threat-to-every-company-in-the-world\/#14cb66a273f0\">said that<\/a> &#8220;cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herjavecgroup.com\/\">Robert Herjavec<\/a>, CEO and founder of the Herjavec Group, said that &#8220;there is no effective law enforcement for financial cybercrime today. 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