No growth is ever made without risk. Every good business owner knows this. The buck does not stop there though. I have been on the hunt for areas of interest in my own business where more risk can be taken and where some risk can be reined in as well.

"Business executives must take an active role in making policy part of the DNA of the company. The first step is a clear recognition of the financial risk to the organization should a breach occur due to noncompliance." -Bob Janacek, DataMotion

This means that not only would I increase the value of my data by securing it; I am actually decreasing that value by not securing it. Still, some companies like Google have already caught on to the idea of securing data by not securing it at all. Even though this makes for some big mistakes in consumer privacy issues if someone were to let say hack Google's server and steal user's information.

Several think tank leaders, including Sir Ken Robinson, have discussed Google X's work environment. In his popular TED Talk, Robinson said that mistakes must be made in order for innovative ideas to take place. In other words, there is no right or wrong answer in the knowledge economy of today.

How can you or your business capitalize from this movement?

DataMotion CTO Bob Janacek says that a best-practice approach to IT security and compliance centers on two key areas: effective communication about policies, and the use of appropriate transfer management tools and controls for corporate email, including on mobile devices.

Did you know that Google didn't track the hits you get from mobile and other devices? Until now, with Universal Analytics - Google's update to it's current Analytics platform; users will be able to see internet traffic in a whole new way. It offers support for an analytics.js library, and Mobile SDK or higher for Android and iOS. From what it looks like, Google has been urging developers to move all "properties" as they put it, over to the new Universal Analytics system. Making the move to know more about your organization's websites and the demographics thereof is a great move. It's much like the transfer of corporate databases to a more secure infrastructure.

After speaking with a representative from Trust-E Online, I am now sure they would center my IT department around our corporate policies. I went out and received a Digital Asset Appraisal and can now begin to see how much this risk is worth to the overall organization. It's well worth the investment in my business.

Guillermo J. Perry is the Platform Administrator for Marketeq Network. For more information on how to what you can do with a digital asset appraisal please visit: http://www.marketeqnetwork.com

Cybercrime is defined as any criminal act involving computers, network infrastructures, and/or communication devices.

In the early years of conception, cybercrime was not as wide spread as it is today. It was usually committed by a rogue individual or a small group of individuals just looking to snoop around some company or personal information. A majority of the intrusions where an attempt to see just how deep they could penetrate without being discovered. The intentions of those individuals were not always criminal, however, their actions where considered to be, even though there was usually no permanent damage other than acts of snooping.

In a short amount of time, cybercrime rapidly evolved from snoopers into those seeking to extract information or deploy viruses. When you consider the evolution of cybercrime, it's similar to the evolution of the security of a bank. Early on, banks were far less complex then the banks of today so accessing them for information or financial gain was an easy process, i.e., banks from the early 1900's would have been far easier to access then the complex banks of today.

Today cybercrime is one of the fastest growing areas of crime. The issues surrounding cybercrime are far more complex and organized. It is evolving and spreading at an alarming rate. Organized crime syndicates work together to cover a wide range of cybercrime activities for the sole purpose of financial gain. Their intentions are criminal, and this pool of individuals continues to grow rapidly.

Because cybercrime is a faceless method of performing criminal acts, an increased number of criminals exploit the accessibility and anonymity that technology offers, and unlike most normal criminal activity, the challenges we face with cybercrime wont be met just at the local level. The global nature of the internet has provided the flexibility for criminals to perform nearly any illegal cybercrime, to anyone they choose, from any location around the world. This is a bad combination for a society that is becoming more interconnected through technology by the day.

Some modern methods of cybercrime include hacking, cracking, identity theft, internet fraud, cyber intrusions, bank fraud, corporate security breaches, spearfishing, and email fraud. Setting up defenses against cyber criminals will become increasingly harder for companies to keep up with demand. In fact many experts today believe we are not winning the battle against cybercrime, and that the amount of criminal hackers exceeds the amount of ethical hackers. A trend that does not seem to be changing anytime in the foreseeable future.

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