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As a cybersecurity leader, I frequently get asked by business owners about how to build a cybersecurity tool stack that can combat current and future threats to a business. Choosing the right tech stack is hard, balancing budget pressures against your needs to get the best bang for your buck.  

Does Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) make sense for your business? With the potential for cost and time savings becoming increasingly evident, the chance for your staff to use their own devices to do work (especially away from the office) may be an exciting prospect.

Here’s a hypothetical example of a commonly observed type of email fraud:

According to the 2019 Annual Cybercrime Report by Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015.

What would be the consequence if your business’ email was not accessible for 30 minutes? How about a full day? A week?

For better or for worse, cybersecurity continues to be a fundamental concern for businesses. In fact, 2018 was a year that saw a rise in both the number and complexity of cyberattacks. From Facebook to British Airways, brands from all over the world fell victim to cybercrime and made headlines on what seemed like a daily basis.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are currently hot property, on the wish and hit lists of just about every company on the planet.

Another day, another red-faced exec wondering how his company just managed to get scammed out of thousands of dollars. Embarrassing? Yes. Uncommon? No.

It’s officially silly (shopping) season. Inboxes around the world are starting to fill up with crazy hot sales, festive deals, and year-end promotions.

Shady and shifty or just another regular Jo? Much like Ted Bundy was considered a charismatic guy, you can never be too sure of the biggest personnel threats to your organisation. Don’t we always see in the news that it’s Susan the lovely office manager who seems to be the one channeling company funds into her own accounts? 

“How did I fall for that?”

Released last week, Gemalto’s Breach Level Index found that over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year - up 1,751% from the same time last year. That translates to 291 data records being breached per second in the first half of 2018.

What is cybersecurity?
If you walked around your office and asked people that question, what sort of answers do you think, you’d get?

The image many businesspeople have of cybercrime is a teenager with a grubby hoody hunched over a laptop hammering code into a flickering screen that’s like something out of The Matrix. The imaginary teen finds a backdoor into a bank’s server admin page, and typing like fury beats the computer in a showdown of quick-draw typing.

Does defeating cybercriminals mean we need to try thinking like they do?

The kind of people who commit cybercrime aren’t CEO material. They aren’t even necessarily the I.T. whiz or hacker type; cybercrime doesn’t require a serious technical skill set. The crooks behind online fraud attacks are using technology, certainly, but they are consumers, not experts.