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The Web has prompted tremendous growth and innovation over the last two decades, but also a new set of challenges.

 

Cybersecurity has emerged as a significant global threat. Every day more than a million people are successfully targeted by cyber criminals.

 

===> That’s a new victim every 14 seconds. <===

 

Malicious attacks are mushrooming and conservative estimates put the annual cost of cybercrime at $114 billion. Given this, it’s hardly surprising that the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network recently elevated cybersecurity to a top five global risk, alongside issues such as income inequality, rising greenhouse gas emissions and fiscal imbalances.

 

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http://www.microsoft.eu/digital-policy/posts/tackling-cybersecurity-together.aspx