L' INTELLIGENCE CYBER par Jean-Paul Pinte

Malicious cyberattacks are a fact of life and a constant challenge for every organization today. As The Economist noted in a 2013 article, “Computer Hacking: A Byte for a Byte,” “Security experts like to say that there are now two types of companies: those that know they have been hacked and those that have been hacked without realizing it.” In 2013, when the University of Delaware suffered its first large-scale security breach, it collated information on cyberattacks at two dozen colleges and universities as reported in news-media accounts. The number of persons affected by breaches during a three-year period ending in 2013 ranged from a low of 3,300 to a high of 760,000 and averaged about 150,000. The prevalence and disruptive impact of cyberattacks have only grown since then.

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