The rise of state-sponsored cyber attacks: what companies need to know

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Chris Gould, cyber leader at EY in the UK & Ireland, on why state-sponsored attacks are becoming more common, the form they take and what firms can do to protect themselves

In what may come as a troubling realisation to many companies and their chief information officers (CIOs), there are very few (if any) firms in the world today whose data is not at risk of being st...

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