Cyber crime represents the greatest risk to economic health in history. It is forecast that by 2021, cyber crime will cost the world in excess of
$6 trillion annually, up from $3 trillion in 2015. Cyber crime costs include damage and destruction of data, stolen money, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to the normal course of business, forensic investigation, restoration and deletion of hacked data and systems, and reputational harm.