The past year has seen an unprecedented demand for organisations to adapt quickly to change. Many of us now work in ways and locations that would previously have been unthinkable before early 2020. Technology has been a critical enabler of this, with an extraordinary take-up of technologies facilitating remote working.
From a cyber security perspective though, the pandemic has not so much delivered ‘new’ challenges, as exacerbated challenges that already existed. We already understood that cyber threats are now simply part of doing business in the 21st century. The evolution of technology towards being able to access our work data and colleagues from anywhere, and our increased reliance on it, were already well established. Working practices and dominant issues of public concern accelerated social media participation.
Staff development and training is essential to the long-term health of any organisation. This is especially true of cyber security, where the skills that people acquire may make a huge difference to that organisation’s resilience…
What the pandemic and the accompanying explosion in home/remote working did, then, was further enrich an…
