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Where is cybercrime really coming from?

1,759,916 views | Caleb Barlow • TED@IBM

Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to protect our data. His solution? We need to respond to cybercrime with the same collective effort as we apply to a health care crisis, sharing timely information on who is infected and how the disease is spreading. If we're not sharing, he says, then we're part of the problem.

Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to protect our data. His solution? We need to respond to cybercrime with the same collective effort as we apply to a health care crisis, sharing timely information on who is infected and how the disease is spreading. If we're not sharing, he says, then we're part of the problem.

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Caleb Barlow

Cybercrime fighter

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IBM's Caleb Barlow is focused on how we solve the cyber security problem by changing the economics for the bad guys.

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This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with IBM. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about the TED Institute.

Learn more about full-scale simulations of cyber breaches and the associated response.

Check out IBM X-Force Command Centers, the industry's leading 24x7 security operation center.