IT services company Unisys recently released its bi-annual Unisys Security Index, which tracks perceptions about Internet security across a variety of topics that affect both enterprise IT and consumers. Not suprisingly, the latest study — which surveyed more than 11,000 people across 12 countries — found that many have already been victims of cyber crime, are worried it will happen again and — in some areas — are willing to to undertake or support some rather extreme efforts to stop the problem.
However, as the infograpic below illustrates, it doesn’t matter whose data is targeted in cyber attacks for the companies left trying resolve events: they’re going to pay a lot of money for damage control and to ensure it doesn’t happen again. That begs the question of who has more to lose from cyber crime, consumers or the companies charged with protecting their data and helping mitigate consumer losses.
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