Some 31 percent of companies have a formal security policy for their company, according to a survey of 1,500 software developers worldwide. Ransomware, DDoS and APTs increased threefold from January to September 2016 alone, affecting one in every five businesses worldwide. Next-generation tools, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing or blockchain in financial services, are driving changes to security policies. Some standards and individual procedures written for how to deal with individual threats may have to be updated more frequently as the threat environment changes.”]