‘If cyber crime was a country, it would be the third largest GDP”

When it comes to cyber crime, the numbers are stark:

It currently costs the world $9.2 trillion
On average, it takes a threat actor 72 minutes to gain access to user data, and that number is going down
About 20% of data breaches today are as a result of insiders
As the world’s largest security company, Microsoft tracks 7,000 password attacks each second. That’s 600 million attacks a day
The number of attackers (such as unique nation state actors and financial crime actors) Microsoft is tracking has gone from an average of 300 every day to 1,500…