As 2016 comes to a close I want take a moment to look back at my cyberrisk predictions from a year ago and discuss what to expect in 2017 and beyond. In case you missed it, with the election and cyberfatigue, cyber-related incidents are still happening at an alarming rate. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, as of Nov. 29, there have been 932 breaches and 34,305,616 compromised records so far in 2016. That is an average of nearly three breaches and over 100,000 compromised records a day. Looking back, my predictions were fairly close to the mark.

The 2016 predictions are in bullets and current analysis follows:

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