 Cybercrime costs an estimated $600 billion annually. The last few years have seen a number of cyber attacks affecting more than 100 countries as well as record data breaches. What has changed? Are we prepared to prevent such attacks in 2019? Ones which could be even worse. Cyber attacks cannot just be considered as simply the cost of doing business. The private sector must be prepared to go beyond the prevention model because it doesn't stop attackers. We must not just build deterrence, we need a global early warning system. This is why collaboration with organisations such as Interpol is essential during and after an attack. This is especially the case with the type of technologies we are seeing today. What history has shown us very clearly is that the more weapons which are available, the greater the chance of them falling into criminal hands and this is as to for cyber weapons. The fourth industrial revolution and globalization 4.0 has a dark side and this is dangerous in a fractured world. We are more interconnected and interdependent than ever. But if our global relations, societies and economies are indeed fracturing, safety and security will not follow.