What will it take for business leaders to understand the true value of cybersecurity? Business decision makers (BDMs) and IT leaders have rarely seen eye to eye. Back in 2020, an analyst report revealed that 69% of execs perceived cybersecurity to be an entirely or mostly technology area. Yet this attitude is increasingly unsustainable in a world where businesses must fight for every last contract and every last staff [...]
Cloud migration: mitigating misconceptions and genuine security risk Sponsored Sometimes it seems like the whole world is migrating their critical data and applications to the cloud. The latest Gartner forecast estimates spending globally on public cloud services will hit $592bn by the end of 2023 – a near 21% year-on-year rise. Yet security is a persistent concern. Research reveals that it is a barrier [...]
As cyber-threats mount, the race is on to define and protect the corporate attack surface Cyper Threats Cybersecurity has historically been a difficult sell to the board. Banking leaders, like their counterparts across other sectors, tended to regard IT security as the domain of the techies—something adjacent to rather than at the core of their business. But things have changed considerably since the start of the pandemic. Today the challenge is not [...]