State-sponsored hacks and major corporate breaches have pushed online security into the spotlight. In response, Google has unveiled Advanced Protection, enabling high-risk users to safeguard their accounts against targeted attacks. But can it get the average person to take cyber-security seriously?

In the 97th episode of podcast Reply All, producer Phia Bennin sought to find out what kind of person gets phished, setting a hacker on her tech-savvy coworkers to see which of them would fall a scam. While it highlighted the risks everyone faces online, do people care enough to act on cyber security?

Verizon has issued a proposal for the company’s executive salaries to be directly linked to cybersecurity performance. With data breaches dominating public consciousness, people are demanding for companies to improve the balance between profit-making and social responsibility.

Open banking regulations will give Britons more control over who has access to their financial data. With banks being one of the least trusted institutions, giving people more control over their data and transparency over how it's used could restore some of the trust that's been lost.