To many businesses, cybersecurity seems scary and confusing. Damaging data breaches continually hit the headlines, along with reports of online identity theft, fraud, blackmail and worse. Regulators hand out ever-larger fines to businesses that fail to protect customer information effectively. And a constantly changing A-Z of jargon – from “attack vector“ to “zero-day“ – leaves most non-technical people reeling.
Indeed, many businesses seem to be stuck in the cybersecurity headlights, admitting they don’t have a clearly defined cyber-defence strategy (pdf). And with so much dangerous traffic hurtling around our data highways and byways, the last place you want to be is in the middle of the road, unprotected.
