By Justice Peprah AGYEI
Technology can help secure systems and protect data, but it is culture that truly protects an organization. Continuous staff training, ethical data handling, and cybersecurity awareness must become part of an organization’s everyday way of thinking and operating. People can either be the weakest point in cybersecurity or the strongest line of defense, depending on how well they are educated, empowered, and integrated into the organization’s security strategy.
Recent global cyber incidents have shown that cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern; it is a major business and economic issue. Cyber failures today can threaten the survival of entire organizations. The WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, for example, caused billions of dollars in losses worldwide, with NotPetya often regarded as one of the most devastating cyber events in history.
Cyber risk did not emerge overnight. It evolved gradually from the early computer viruses of the 1980s and the Morris Worm in 1988, through the rise of organized cybercrime in the 2000s, to today’s environment of ransomware, state-sponsored attacks, artificial…
