The threat is real and immediate. Essentially, every week there are news reports of some company or organization that has had data stolen – from the Department of Defense to, increasingly, small businesses. Most incidents, of course, are never made public. The potential damage, as we will discuss, involves far more than stolen or damaged data. Cyber is connected to our economy and job creation. It is not just national security information that is being stolen from databases in the . All kinds of intellectual property are targeted. Information stolen from.