In the age of the Internet and the digital transformation of recent years, cybersecurity has become a familiar topic of conversation inside and outside the workplace.

What people tend to forget is that cybersecurity and cyberthreats have been permanent features of the landscape throughout the last 50 years of technological change.

In the 1970s and 1980s, computer security was mainly a subject of academic interest, but when the Internet arrived and connectivity took off, computer viruses and network intrusions rapidly changed scale.

The 1990s were plagued by viruses and in the 2000s the cyber landscape started to become increasingly institutionalised.

The 2010s saw the beginning of large-scale cyberattacks and were marked by the widespread introduction of government regulations.

What does the next chapter hold in store?

Find out here and download the complete infographic about the history of cybersecurity — a timeline of the key milestones in the unfolding cyber story.