- Group-IB Sustainability Report reveals a significant saving in emissions
- Fighting Cyber Crime Surprisingly helps cut emissions
- This comes at a time when technical emissions are at all times high
Combating cybercrime and dismantling of malicious networks has a surprising effect on removing harmful emissions, new research has claimed.
Group IB-S Sustainability Report has revealed that the organization’s work to run cybercrime networks and the removal of criminal control over corrupt computers has caused 10K TCO₂S in emissions
This corresponds to a gasoline -powered car traveling up to 52 million kilometers, or the carbon caught by 48,000 wooden plants grown for ten years – or 22.4 m kWh unnecessary electricity consumption.
Technical sustainability problems
By 2024, Group -IB contributed to local and international law enforcement efforts and operations to run 207,442 compromised computers and removed them from criminal control.
Alongside this, over $ 2.7 billion was prevented in social technical losses, and 65 million potential victims were protected as well as 1,221 criminals arrested.
This comes at a time when emissions are under considerable control as the development of AI and data center has led to a serious increase in technical sector emissions that now account for 3% of global carbon production, which is expected to increase to as much as 13% by 2030.
“Cyber security must protect more than data-it must protect our common future,” said Anastasia Komissarova, Viceroy for Group-IB.
With the energy consumption of data centers, which are now roughly to Japan’s total energy consumption, and Google’s data centers have spent over four billion liters of water alone in 2021 alone – it is easy to see why tech companies are so eager to prove that sustainability wins.
“We refine our product architecture to cut back on energy consumption, turn on offices with renewable energy, insert AI only under strict ethical and privacy control and shape a workplace where different talent can excel,” added Komissarova.
“By publishing our progress, we aim to prove that innovation, security and sustainability can go ahead and raise the column of the entire cyber security industry.”
