This year's top six cyber risks for businesses, according to The Chertoff Group principal Adam Isles, include: increase in destructive attacks targeting industrial control systems; expansion of IoT as a threat vector; evolution in nation-state activity tradecraft, advances in identity subversion as a tactic; increased use of software subversion to bypass security controls; and increase in third-party risk.

Every four years, the U.S. intelligence community releases a Global Trends Report, and the one released in January 2017, cited destruction of important civilian infrastructure as an increasingly likely form of emerging warfare.

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