A report from the accounting firm Deloitte observed that for several years, businesses and organisations in Barbados and the rest of the Caribbean were being targeted by cyber attackers and that the risk was steadily increasing.This is important to note as the country is witnessing a barrage of cyber-attacks on critical institutions. They range from our main healthcare facility to commercial banks and credit unions, to retail operators and individuals.The matter is becoming so widespread that it is causing a degree of suspicion and anxiety about the security of our electronic data, whether it is emails that we are sharing or our banking transactions with financial institutions.According to the Deloitte study, the first wave of ransomware attacks in the Caribbean started in 2013 and since then, they have not abated. The attempts of data breaches have also risen.
