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Anyone who has suffered damage once will be very careful the next time, that is what the proverb "once bitten, twice shy" is meant to convey. But what happens if you fail to notice
the damage in the first place? This may be the case when a business becomes the victim of industrial
espionage. So the maxim "better safe than sorry" seems to be the better one, because the losses caused by industrial espionage in Germany alone have been estimated at € 10 billion
every year. For this reason, both the German Information Security Agency and the EU Commission advise all businesses to protect, i. e. encrypt, all communication channels used to
transmit sensitive information.
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