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Endnotes
1 ENISA is the European Union’s Cyber research agency. The ENISA Threat Landscape 2014, can be
found at www.enisa.europa.eu
2 50% of data breaches are attributed to this defect
3 48% of organisations participating in a related survey admitted to not providing such training to
their employees
4 Verizon Security Researchers, in its Data Breach Investigations Report for 2014 reports an annual
three-fold increase in cyber espionage. The profile of the attacker is evolving from one of a lone
hacker to one or more nation-state actors who have the sophisticated cyber attacking means to
infiltrate organisations – both public and private sector.
5 For example smart homes, smart vehicles,etc.
6 Such as power supply systems e.g.SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), medical
systems, telecommunication, etc
7 Which could be potentially triggered by neighbourhood disputes, tenancy, etc.
8 PwC (2015), Global State of Information Security Survey(2015)
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/consulting-services/information-security-survey/
9 Verizon Security Researchers (2014), op.cit
10 PwC (2015), op.cit
11 Detected incidents soared six-fold from 2014 – PwC (2015),op.cit.
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