New research suggests that the rapid digitisation of consumer’s lives, combined with increasing cyber-crime activity, will push data breach losses up to US$ 2.1 trillion (£1.34 trillion) globally by 2019. In its latest report ‘The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Financial & Corporate Threats & Mitigation’, Juniper Research predicts that the majority of these breaches will still come from existing IT and network infrastructure, with the number of mobile and Internet of Things attacks expected to be “minimal” in comparison to more traditional computing devices.
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