From POODLE, Heartbleed, and Shellshock in 2014 to the Hacking Team breach, OpenSSL’s FREAK and a variety of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2015, we have seen a consistent ramp-up in security threats and successful data breaches, leading to a dramatic increase in media coverage.
While this coverage has escalated the level of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), overall, increasing awareness of the threat is a good thing because every company is vulnerable, every company is a target, and any compromise of your data will be expensive and bad for business
