www . AmericanSecurityToday . com 2021 CHAMPIONS - Edition 60
Cyemptive technologies are preemptive and remove threats before they take hold , in seconds . Financially guaranteed threat elimination made simple .
Cyemptive – The Answer
Guest Editorial by Rob Pike , Founder & CEO of Cyemptive Technologies
The Cyber Security Challenge We Face
According to industry research , companies are succumbing to increasingly sophisticated ran- somware and malware attacks at a cost of more than $ 6 trillion in 2021 , and the costs will con- tinue to grow . Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , ransom- ware attacks have been growing by more than 20 % year over year .
The FBI ’ s Internet Crime Com- plaint Center ( IC3 ), which was recognized in the 2020 ' ASTORS ' Homeland Security Awards Program , has reported an over 300 % increase in the number of complaints per day during 2020 , compared to pre-COVID-19 re- porting .
This is all occurring in an envi- ronment where unprecedent- ed , significant rises in remote worker access occurred quickly and unexpectedly .
Emerg- ing threats tied to cybersecurity
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