Wednesday 28 September 2016

Consumer Watch: Cybersecurity is a must even for smaller firms

In our digital age there is extraordinary technology that improves our lives, increases our productivity and makes it easy to access information on just about anything. But there’s also a serious risk for cybercriminals to leverage our dependence on technology for financial gain.

Earlier this year, I read a frightening article in Forbes in which IBM President Ginni Rometty said, “Cybercrime may be the greatest threat to every company in the world.”

She’d get no argument from Yahoo, which, as most of you now know, has revealed that it’s been victimized by hackers and that hundreds of millions of customer accounts have been compromised. Other companies that have been through

this, such as Target, Home Depot and too many other firms to mention, probably would agree as well. For the full article click here 



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