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Wednesday 3 December 2014

EFFECTS OF HACKING ON BUSINESS

Compromise Information:
Attackers may steal corporate secrets and sell them to competitors, compromise critical financial information, and leak information to rivals.

Loss of Revenues:

Botnets can be used to launch various types of DoS and other web-based attacks, which may lead to business down-time and significant loss of revenues

Business Loss:

Hacking can be used to steal, pilfer, and redistribute intellectual property leading to business loss

Reputation:

Theft of customers' personal information may risk the business's reputation and invite lawsuits

Statistics:

According to the Symantec 2012 state of information survey, information costs businesses worldwide $1.1 trillion anually

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