Cyber-Attacks: Why Any Business May Be At Risk And Five Possible Ways To Address The Risks

In this article, Stikeman Elliott's Vanessa Coiteux reminds us that the risk of cyber-attack is by no means confined to businesses in certain industries. She identifies five cybersecurity risk factors that apply to most or all businesses and discusses how to address them. These observations will be of particular interest to corporate directors who, as the article notes, increasingly have to take the risk of cyber-attacks into account – including in situations where the acquisition or sale of a business is being contemplated.

• "This is not a big public company!"
• "This is not a financial institution or a retail company!"
• "There must be more valuable information to hack out there!"