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When the 'Internet of Things' Meets Crime, It's a 'Cyberastrophe'

As our need for the Internet grows, our ability to control, monitor and maintain it will not keep pace.

By Robert M. Dietzel, ARM, CIC | Updated on June 17, 2014

Zurich Insurance Co. and The Atlantic Council, in their excellent April 2014 Risk Nexus report, share these sobering thoughts about how cyber attacks could potentially unravel the internet: “The growing number and sophistication of cyber attacks is threatening to outstrip our efforts to increase resiliency against them.” They go onto report 730 million data files were potentially viewed or stolen worldwide in 2013.

What is even more troubling is in the not-too-distant future, these may be remembered as the good old days.

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