The cyber security sector is one of the most intense and is growing rapidly in the world of technology. Internet access grows, more and more electronic devices and needs to use more applications without being fully aware of the risks that may affect our privacy. There is no doubt that new technologies bring productivity and breakthroughs, however, it is increasingly harder for us to understand how everything is connected together. It is estimated that, every day, one and a half million people are victims of a cyber crime in the US alone and 15 million Americans a year suffer the theft of their identity. Spain is among the hardest hit: it has doubled the number of cyber attacks in 2015 reaching more than 4000 every day and experts predict a greater threat especially in smartphones.

The fourth most affected sector is not an industry but nothing more and nothing less than governments around the world. One of the most powerful, the US, has spent $ 100 billion on cyber security in the last ten10 years and has budgeted spend
$ 14 billion in 2016. One of the most recent and controversial spending has been $ 1.3 million for access of iPhone data of suspected terrorist Syed Farook. This happened after Apple refused to create a backdoor to allow the FBI to access any of your devices and maintain confidence on the privacy of its customers.

The size of the world market for cyber security was valued at $ 77 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $ 170 billion by 2020. So far, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested by companies' venture capital and private investors. In Spain, the sector turnover ofwas 600 million euros in 2014 and it is estimated that companies will increase by 36% expenditure for this purpose.

Specifically mobile security will grow by 30% until 2019 due to the massive increase in the use of smartphones and tablets worldwide. aAlso it highlights how the insurance market is dedicated to cybersecurity, which has grown from
$ 1 trillion in 2015 to $ 2.5 billion in less than two years and is expected to continue to grow and expand internationally in the next five.

The enormous potential of startups.

These figures explain why cybersecurity has become a niche business and a priority area of ​​business investment. According to data provided by Tech.eu, in the first two months of this year, cybersecurity startups have occupied most of the ecosystem in technology investment: European and Israeli companies raised 2.600 billion euros in those two months.

Trends on innovative cybersecurity solutions, according to the expert Antonio Guzman ElevenPaths, will be the real-time intelligence, identity management, mobile security, vulnerability management and biometrics.

The need for solutions is urgent and startups appear to be the only ones able to provide effective measures to save our privacy. As Richard Stallman says: "The duty of a citizen is not to believe in any prophecy of the future, but to act to make the best possible future."