Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war

Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war

Businesses are worrying about being caught in the crossfire of cyber warfare, according to research from Bitdefender – while industry figures warn that the gap between common-or-garden cyber threats and “oh, look what nation states are doing” is becoming ever smaller.


Bitdefender’s latest research report, titled 10 in 10, surveyed around 6,000 C-suite bods responsible for cyber security and found [PDF] that “over a fifth” of these said that cyber warfare was one of the most challenging topics they had to convince their colleagues to take seriously.


The firm’s Liviu Arsene told The Register: “I don’t think they’re afraid of cyber warfare in the sense of directly being targeted, more in line with being collateral victims of cyberwarfare taking out electric power grids, internet. They need to be prepared for t ..

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