Research and advice firm Gartner Inc. have revealed the top six trends relating to security and risk management. 
Research company Gertner have revealed six top trends relating to business security and risk management.
The firm have revealed the trends along with a recommendation for CTO’s to take advantage of them in order to further secure their company.
The first trend listed was that senior business executives have begun to take cyber security and the potential for cyber attacks much more seriously due to a series of high-profile cases, namely the Equifax data breach of September 2017 and the WannaCry ransomware attack of May 2017.
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Vice president of research at Gartner Peter Firstbrook stated that executives are now holding security in much higher regard, no longer dismissing the matter with the “overly serious, unsmiling types in the company basement” stereotype in mind.
Secondly on the list is a higher importance of data liabilities is being demanded by regulatory mandates such as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is impacting…
