Hacker attacks will continue to 2030

In its latest Transport & Logistics’ 2030 series [Volume 4]: Securing the Supply Chain, the organisation says that cyber attacks are now so sophisticated that any business, or even country, could be at risk.

The report, undertaken jointly with the Supply Chain Management Institute (SMI) at EBS Business School in Germany, surveyed 80 executives across business, science and government, who on average, said there was a 56% probability of a rise in attacks in some form.

The report goes on to say that firms need to prepare not just for cyber attacks; they also need to be prepared to handle natural or man-made disasters. Overall, those surveyed were more concerned with hacker attacks affecting their supply chains than actual physical attacks. Recent research also shows that the German internet is attacked every two seconds.