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IT security professionals used to warn that only two types of businesses exist: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Now, many are even more pessimistic, and divide the world's businesses into companies that know that they have been hacked, and those that don't.
Law firms are juicy targets with all the personal identifiable information (PII) contained in client files. Intellectual property practices are especially attractive to cyber thieves because of the value of patent, trademark and trade secret information.
While it is unlikely that every company has experienced a data breach (whether known or unknown), no business is immune from this threat. Cyber incidents have become the third largest risk to businesses worldwide, according to a recent report from the Insurance Information Institute. These cyber threats impact both small and large businesses, nonprofit and publicly traded corporations, and even local and federal governments. The actors behind these threats are as wide-ranging as their targets. In recent years, we have seen state-sponsored attacks against businesses for political purposes, hacktivists seeking social change, and a plethora of individual attacks for financial gain. The recent spate of high-profile breaches show that many of these incidents play out very publicly, and may have devastating and long-lasting consequences.
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