Target, Home Depot, Sony, Anthem. All of these companies have been victims of very public cybersecurity breaches. Given what we know about those breaches, how can any other company know that it is safe from a cyber attack? No firewall appears to be unbreachable and no security system impenetrable.
No company is big or small or traditional enough to avoid such exposure, as long as the business receives or transmits data or uses computer networks. And, the harm from such attacks is not just bad publicity and possible job losses for those whose files are hacked, but there are very real, and substantial, costs that are incurred by companies when they suffer such attacks.
