Cybersecurity firm. 

When the business sector is a mechanism to drive the country's economy to grow, the introduction of advanced technology systems to facilitate business operations is diverse and popular through online systems. However, at the same time, there are also a large number of criminals who keep their eyes open, aiming to hack information to benefit from the system of the business sector that operates.

Last year (2022), Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has released its predictions for cybersecurity trends that will shape the digital world. It was found that the average ransom demand for malware attacks that each organization had to pay in the first half of 2021 was about $570,000, or about 18.8 million baht, an increase from the previous year (2020). ) up to 82%, and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society also released threat statistics related to Ransomware in 2021. 7,353,785 times, of which 25,595 times were detected in Thailand, which does not include other cyberthreats.

Due to this problem in Thailand, the Office of the National Cybersecurity Committee, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, has been established to be responsible for the work according to the Cybersecurity Act 2019 in coordinating the operations of the public and private sectors in general situations or situations that pose a serious threat to security, which will effectively prevent and respond to cyber threats. 
Initially, the criteria for evaluating cyber threats are set at any level, consisting of 4 factors as follows:

1. Impacts on equipment or work systems

2. Impacts information in the system

3. Trends in system recovery

4. Impacts on customers or service users

Along with the introduction of new technologies come into use in operations, including Issued the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) which took effect on May 1, last year (2022) as a tool for persons who have personal data or have a system of service providers of the company must have measures or have a system to prevent personal data from leaking or being secretly used for wrongful purposes, as well as data management personal to comply with laws and international principles to protect the rights of users of the system both in daily life and in the commercial sector, the operation of organizations or agencies to ensure safety and without crooks to disturb from using technology. 

Source: Ministry of Digital Economy and Society

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