Despite advances in cybersecurity technology, data breaches remain a serious threat to organizations. In 2019, about 4.1 billion records were exposed in data breaches.
Cyber-criminals are now leveraging technology against enterprises and deploying advanced cyber-attacks that are difficult to detect and eliminate in a timely manner. This alone – delayed identification and a weak response plan – can be fatal for any organization and lead to severe consequences.
Since the number of data breaches is increasing every year, determining how to safeguard their organizations against these cyber-attacks is becoming a more regular conversation between business leaders and security experts.
Despite the dire consequences of a data breach, not everyone recognizes the serious threat that data breaches represent. To give you a better understanding of how a data breach could be devastating for your business, here are four long-term effects of a data breach:
About the Author
Aaron Cure is the Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor and contributing author for the Dev544 Secure Coding in .NET course. After 10 years in the U.S. Army, he decided to switch my focus to developing security tools and performing secure code reviews, penetration testing, static source code analysis, and security research. You can find more about him here.