
Cyber Security
Over the last decade, the number, quality and breadth of cyber attacks has increased at an alarming rate. Criminals have professionalized their approach and created commercial operations. Whether it is a ransomware attack or a data hack, these operations are carried out quickly and efficiently. They have created lucrative models to monetize their crimes and finance their organizations.
Cyber attacks do not respect international borders and the criminals prey on organizations that hold sensitive data, have easy access to funds and are sufficiently high profile to cause public embarrassment in the event of an attack. Such has been the regularity of these incidents that ordinary citizens fear for the safety of their personal information. And financial institutions and entities with extensive payment data are their top targets.
P20 believes that the only way to combat these attacks and reduce their effectiveness is to collaborate as an industry to develop best practice and strengthen resiliency, working alongside agencies representing multiple governments. By tackling these challenges side by side, we can develop a common approach to threat assessments and cyber protocols – and critically, build relationships and communication channels which we believe will prove vital in a systemic attack.
New data created in 2025 is estimated to reach 175 zettabytes – 175 plus 21 zeros
Data breaches exposed 37.2 billion records in 2021.
Security breaches increased by 31% from 2020 to 2021.
Hackers attack every 39 seconds, on average 2,244 times per day
1 in 10 attacks are on the financial services industry
71% of breaches were financially motivated
It takes 287 days on average to identify and contain a data breach.
(Source: Accenture, Flashpoint, IBM, Ponemon Institute, Risk Based, University of Maryland, Verizon, Seagate Technology/IDC)