Can we compare a 26/11 type terror attack to an email hack? Which one do you think is more threatening? While many would fear the first, it is cyber attack that has grown to become the top threat. A recent joint survey done by FICCI and Pinkerton has found that the fear of cyber insecurity is today the topmost threat while that of a terror attack has moved to a second. And not just the IT industry, even the government, manufacturing and telecom sectors are rating cyber security as one of their top 3 risks. Mass killings carried out by insurgents used to be everyone's top fear- not anymore-it is now the organized cyber-criminals and rogue hacktivists who are making their unfortunate targets lose sleep.
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