Cybersecurity

Cyber-security: More Than Just A Reputational Risk

We are living in a constantly interconnected society, where each individual walks around with one or more gadgets with access to internet. These devices contain unlimited personal data about consumption, preferences, bank accounts, activities, behavior in social media, etc. All this intelligence being of an uncountable value for certain stakeholders (companies, organizations, individuals, etc). Meanwhile, these users live blindly and little aware of he magnitude of the dangers they are to which they are susceptible.

Every individual has become a risk factor, an entrance portal exposed to any type of cyber-attack. Only in Spain, cyber-attacks have increased exponentially in recent years; According to studies presented by the Spanish National Institute of Cyber-security (INCIBE), the biggest jump has occurred in the last twelve months, from 50,000 to 120,000 attacks (a 357 percent more in the last year).