Cybercrime is expected to cost the global economy around $3 trillion dollars by 2020. Cybersecurity professionals have been falling further behind bad actors abilities to get inside networks and compromise data. Security teams are already overwhelmed, and the global cybersecurity skills gap pretty much ensures that there is no cavalry over the horizon that can ride to the rescue. Many IT teams became so overwhelmed with just keeping up with the changes to their infrastructure that even basic security practices like patching devices and cyber hygiene were forgotten, resulting in some of the highest profile attacks of 2017.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3254201/winning-the-digital-transformation-cyberwar.html