As 2017 approaches, the information technology community and indeed the global community will look back at 2016 as the most unsecure year to date with cyber attacks and data breaches aplenty.

2016, although not quite finished, has been the most vulnerable year for public and private sector businesses in terms of data breaches, hacks and everything in between.

That is not to say those in the cyber security are standing twiddling their thumbs. Far from it, and Information Age expects a lot to come from integrating AI and automation processes into security defences.

The problem has been been that cyber security systems, which may have not been given top priority by the c-suite executives, have simply been overrun by the amount of malicious traffic bombarding their equivalent to the Trojan Gate.

Indeed, the other side of malicious traffic has, instead of mounting an all out offensive like the recent Dyn attacks that shut down Twitter among others, snuck in undetected like the Greeks did using the Trojan horse.

The Greek soldiers bypassed the ‘impenetrable defence’ and remained undetected until it was too late, much like the Yahoo data breach that was found out this year but began leaking data in 2014.