The phenomenon of cyber terrorism and cyber-attacks is one that businesses, if not society in general, continue to underestimate. Since the millennium technology, and the reliance on it, has developed at astonishing speeds—and so has malicious software. For every high demand user experience developer and software engineer, there is someone else using the same skillsets to hack into corporate systems. Sony Entertainment learned this the hard way, as did Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Ashley Madison, Kickstarter, the Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Personnel Management, to name only a few.
