2021 was a devastating year for cybersecurity. As business accelerated digital adoption and people played out their lives online, as a result of the pandemic, threat actors were ready to capitalise on the transitional moment, savagely targeting everything from critical health infrastructure to small and medium-sized businesses.
By Q4 of 2021, the number of reported data breaches had already surpassed 2020 totals, which were historic in their own right. Collectively, 281.5 million people have been impacted by a data breach in 2021, while cybercrime costs companies USD1.79 million per minute, demonstrating the across-the-board impact of today’s cybersecurity landscape.
To give our listeners insights into the cybersecurity landscape and why it is more critical than ever for businesses to have strategies and resilience systems in place to respond to rising cyberthreats, we speak to Debasish Mukherjee, Vice President, Regional Sales-APAC of SonicWall.
A company founded in 1991 and headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, SonicWall provides Internet security solutions and appliances to customers around the globe.
During the conversation, Debasish shares insights from SonicWall’s 2022 Cyber Threat Report, a bi-annual report which details a sustained meteoric rise in ransomware with 623.3 million attacks globally.
Additionally, Debasish talks about:
- SonicWall, its history and what the company was set up to do.
- Top Asia Pacific insights from the Cyber Threat Report.
- Why the number of cyberattacks doubled in 2021 and how companies respond to it.
- Investments by companies to protect themselves from cyberthreats and key things that companies and individuals can prepare for future cyberattacks.
Guest: Debasish Mukherjee, Vice President, Regional Sales-APAC of SonicWall
Host: Brian Fernandez
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