For example, he suggested that people don't use cloud-based storage offerings such as Dropbox to store corporate data.

"Dropbox might be secure but which country is it located and under which legislation?"

"If I want to be a cybercriminal, the easiest thing I could do is create storage in the cloud solution that is marked as secure and you're going to give me all the data anyway."

Piff added that the motivation of cybercriminals had changed from simply hacking sites to making money out of business critical data.

"Criminals used to rob banks by breaking and entering but now they don't have to," he said.