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FIGHTING CYBERATTACKS
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by Beth Miller
It all sounds like something from a video game, a science fiction thriller or the latest twisted espionage on The Blacklist.
But the work now underway at the University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative (UDCSI) is not the stuff of cyborgs, zombie armies or people with tinfoil hats.
The threats UDCSI Director Starnes Walker and a growing army of students, researchers and government and industry partners are addressing are not virtual. They’re as real and terrifying as the barrel of a gun in your face or the approaching whine of a rocket-propelled grenade.
Costs of Cyberespionage
The theft of intellectual property is estimated
to cost the U.S. economy over $300 billion a year,
which translates into roughly 2.1 million lost jobs.
The Future of Cyberattacks
61% Sixty-one percent of industry experts believe there will be a major cyberattack causing
widespread harm by 2025.
—Pew Research Center
—The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property
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