Feeling lucky? [Special Report Cyber Security]

2014 WAS A bad year for cyber security, and experts warn that 2015 could be even worse. The scale of attacks indicates that cyber crime is not only a considerable challenge but that the bad guys are winning. Rather than implement effective security, many organisations are simply gambling that they do not represent an attractive enough target compared with their peers. The cyber world has become an increasingly attractive playground for criminals, activists and terrorists motivated to become noticed, make money, cause havoc or bring down corporations and governments through online attacks. In 2013 alone, IBM reported, 1.5 million monitored cyber attacks took place in the US, so it is not a surprise that cyber-security specialist and senior vice president of products at Clearswift Guy Bunker warns: "threats are an everyday event and breaches are \´when\´ not \´if\´."