Douglas S. Thomas

Douglas S. Thomas is an economist in the Applied Economics Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His work focuses on manufacturing industry costs, risks and economic decision making. Thomas has a number of publications, has been cited by the Economist, received the Jack Bono award for engineering communications, and is the author/contact for NIST's Applied Economics in Manufacturing website.

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Manufacturing Cybercrime: It’s Worse Than We ThoughtU.S. manufacturing losses in 2016 due to cybercrime could be as much as to $36.3 billion
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The cyber world is relatively new, and unlike other types of assets, cyber-assets are potentially accessible to criminals in far-off locations. This distance provides the criminal with significant protections from getting caught; thus, the risks are…