Latitude Financial’s data breach disaster has contributed to the rampant fear of cybersecurity attacks in Australia. Jack Colreavy, Senior Associate of Corporate Finance dives into the severity of cyberattacks and the struggles surrounding cybersecurity investment in this week’s ABSI.
Unfortunate news for Latitude Financial customers this week with the company announcing that almost 8 million customers had their data breached in a recent cybersecurity attack. Unfortunately, this is just another example of a string of recent data breaches on Australian shores. In 2022, there were 73 such breaches with the highest profile being Medibank Private, which had the health records of 9.3 million Australians.
Naturally, as we progress to a more digital world, the prevalence of cyber attacks will increase, but unfortunately companies aren't increasing their spending enough on cybersecurity. A study by Deloitte found that the average financial institution spends just 0. 13 percent of their annual revenue on cybersecurity, and this is unfortunate given the costs.
A McKinsey report predicts that cyber attacks will cost billions. 10. 5 trillion a year by 2025, fortunately, lawmakers do recognize the problem and are starting to make changes in order to incentivize companies to spend more on cybersecurity. Recent legislation introduced by the labor government will increase maximum fines from 2.
2 million to 50 million. However, this doesn't address talent gap in the marketplace. More needs to be done to incentivize training in these areas. To ensure that we have the cyber security professionals needed in order to tackle these prevalent cyber attacks. To learn more, please subscribe to As Barclay Sees It by clicking the link in the description.
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