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The field of cybersecurity became Türkiye’s one of the most important target markets for the last two years. Türkiye continues its efforts to develop the domestic cybersecurity ecosystem within the framework of Cybersecurity Cluster which engenders all sectors. Türkiye aims to have a say in the world market which is expected to reach 240 billion USD by the year 2023, by increasing the number of local and national products. CYBERSECURITY is becoming more important every day, since data has become nowadays kind of an equivalent to a war weapon. Every time a new system is digitized it brings new and serious security risks with itself. Especially during the corona virus pandemic the data protection became even more important and difficult, since it involved the usage of many electronic devices. While threatening individuals and corporates, data security started to rise up among countries as an 42
international strategic issue. The numbers are surprising. In average there are over 100 thousand cyber attacks per week. Especially the ransom software threat has been growing up in last years. It was a compelling issue for corporations in 2019 and it is expected to continue its effect in 2020. The cyber attacks are realized in light speed. A damage of a couple of trillion USD is expected worldwide in 2021 and countries will face national security risks. JULY 2020 ISSUE 81
On the other hand, cyber attacks against Türkiye are increasing every year. While the cyber attack number against Türkiye wasn’t even 9 thousand in 2016, it has been reported 72 thousand 975 attacks in 2016 and 136 thousand 411 in 2019. According to the research company IntelProbe’s “2019 Annual Cyber Threat Report”, Türkiye ranked fourth among cyber attack targeted countries in the world in 2019. The report states that USA, Netherlands and
