This Article we will be addressing cybersecurity in relation to the Blockchain Industry specifically what I share with you will be a valuable complete understanding of this industry broken down into two sections. The first section will be for a basic understanding concerning every important aspect of cybersecurity & the second section will be an in-depth review of Polyswarm the only established small market-cap project finding solutions in a modest $8.5 Billion nitch.

Let's talk cybersecurity at this point in time it is a make-believe word as most individuals have given up on the 'security' aspect of anything to do with personal information online. Can you blame us? Look around our government gets hacked every election cycle, the places we trust to spend money at like Amazon, Target, Apple have flaws exploited yearly. Even at the highest level of trust, put in our credit reporting agency is trash as we saw in the Equifax exploitation & hack in 2017. Affecting 143 million Americans social security cards, banking & credit information.

We as people have grown accustomed to being exploited online, to the point we have grown numb to the overall frequency attacks take place without really diving into the numbers we are ignorant to the biggest epidemic & sacrifice of the 21'st century. What will shock you is the yearly cost hackers cause the global economy which comes out to represent $400 Billion Dollars a year. The statistics are so high the numbers seem to be make-believe, however, this is an epidemic that's growing +10% a year in size.

Governments, Corporations & Individuals are expected to spend accumulatively $170 Billion dollars on defense against these threats yearly by the year 2020, & it makes sense in retrospect to losing secure & personal information, trade secrets & the long-term effects an attack has on a companies revenue & brand reputation.

Let's break down the current centralized solutions in this industry & their current size:



Keep in mind these numbers are not exact as its hard to gather exact price data on private companies. However, this data should serve as a general estimate of the scale expected when dividing into the major companies in relation to market size. For time sake we are only going to focus on Mcafee as its located in the middle size wise in relation to this industry.



From a quick breakdown, we can gather a general idea of the scale this company operates within. An impressive 8.5 Compound annual growth rate, 85 million corporate endpoints, 479 million consumer endpoints, 7200+ employees, protecting 87% of the worlds largest banks.

Important things to note on the volume of attacks Mcafee sees yearly: 300 new threats every minute which comes out to be 158 Million threats a year. 25 million total malicious signed binaries in Q1 of 2018 equates to 100million yearly. 18.7million suspected URLs in Q1 correlates to 74.8 million yearly. And 16 million total ransomware in Q1 rounds off to be 64 million yearly. Keep in mind this is only the attacks seen by one company.

At a glance, these numbers are insane & it makes sense why John Mcafee lost his mind after launching this business by the sheer size and constant attacks 24/7 it's too big of a responsibility for any centralized company to handle.

My overall conclusion from the research I have been able to gather is all major cybersecurity companies in this field are competing against each other as they fight to create a single solution for all the consumers they are responsable for protecting. Specifically, their downfall and why hackers are still able to prevail is because the protection is limited to a single solution there is no cross-collaboration setup.

Now is there a better way to go about cybersecurity in the future? What place if any will blockchain have in helping protect companies and individuals from attacks & hackers? The opportunity & value potential is there for any company willing to break away from the norms of a centralized security solution & establish something truly revolutionary. From my research theirs only one company I've been able to find attempting to think outside the box & establish a dynamic complete solution concerning the first cybersecurity ecosystem. Located at a meek $4 million dollar market cap Polyswarm is setting up a foundation to enter in a $170 Billion dollar cybersecurity industry with little to no competition in site.

This is a small market cap coin with little volume which correlates to HIGH RISK / HIGH REWARD, and should be seen as a hold investment there are many good attributes of the polyswarm project and few flaws. I'm here to state the facts & give you the information so you can make an honest assessment on the opportunity if any this project holds.

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