Our life revolves around increasingly digitized activities, even companies struggle every day to get involved in digital transformation and automate their processes. This is the main reason why we are increasingly prone to cybercrime.
Meanwhile, many countries are constantly working to approve new cybersecurity policies to safeguard our rights in the digital context, as well as privacy, property, data security, espionage, manipulation of social networks, computer attacks, among others.
However, is estimated that cybercrime accounts for half of all property crimes that take place in the world. Also, most Latin American and Caribbean countries do not have a cybersecurity strategy. This is why it has become an extremely vulnerable region where it is estimated that the cost of cybercrime is 90 billion dollars a year.
An analysis on the subject focused on Latin America and the Caribbean shows that more and more large companies are making significant investments in cybersecurity issues, which leaves small and medium-sized companies that constitute 99% of the population in the eye of the hurricane. The economic structure of the region. All this because the lack of knowledge and qualified personnel in the region makes it a costly and high-risk investment. However, what is not known is that today multiple accessible offers will allow us to grow in the digital ecosystem with more robust and less vulnerable platforms.
The issue of cybersecurity must be a priority on the agenda, both for governments and large, medium, and small companies as well as ordinary citizens who are also victims of cybercrime, especially now that computer attacks are more and more sophisticated, we must be prepared so that these intrusions do not cause big damage.
