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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

In particular, it advocates (1) treating the cyber risk as an organization-wide, enterprise-level strategic priority , and (2) targeting cyber-risk at applicable stages in the data lifecycle —including collection, use, sharing, and destruction—by deploying credible industry guidance, as appropriate to the organization. Principle 2.

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

However, some adware might harvest personal data or redirect web browsers to malicious websites. At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military. Virtually every modern cyberattack involves some type of malware. Thus the first computer worm was born.