The study paints a picture of a business environment in which access to information is more distributed, data analysis skills are more common, and tools to manage and analyze large sets of data are more pervasive.

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Data can be better secured since the management is centralized, even though access is distributed.

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These offences cover the acts of unauthorised access to personal accounts, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attacks and intrusive hacks where data is taken or systems changed.

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