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It should not surprise anyone if we say that 2021 was one of the most turbulent years ever for the cyber security industry. There were multiple high-profile cyber-attacks throughout the year. Many believe cyber-psychopaths committed the first death caused by a ransomware attack. Companies lost hundreds of billions of dollars to ransomware. The number of publicly reported data breaches exceeded the amount of 2020, and this year is on track to be crowned as the year with the record breaches ever. During the summer Wall Street Journal reported the first ransomware death caused in a hospital in Alabama. Data breaches kept making the headlines coming from organizations of all sizes – medium, small and large. And according to the experts at WatchGuard, 2022 will likely be as turbulent as 2021.
