Art Businesses Are Uniquely Susceptible to Cybercrime. Here Are a Few Simple Ways to Protect Yours, According to Top Experts
As an industry that still finalizes multimillion-dollar deals over email, the art trade has special vulnerabilities. May 25, 2021 An employee of EnBW, an EDF subsidiary in Berlin, works at her computer monitor. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images) Forget art thieves. The art trade has a new foe: cybercriminals. Almost 60 percent of galleries surveyed in the 2020 Hiscox Online Art Trade Report were either “concerned” or “very concerned” about cybercrime—a big leap from the previous year. This rising anxiety makes sense: the pandemic, the craze for NFTs, and a collector base newly...
Source: artnet.com