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‘The Road Aheads’ this weeks Cyber Insights from The National Cyber Skills Centre

By . December 20, 2018
I was very fortunate to attend last weeks North West Cyber Security Conference. Events like these, and there are more and more of them cropping up, are always a good opportunity to get a feel for the cyber landscape. With a wide range of cyber professionals, technology companies, support organisations, training companies and more it’s almost impossible not to be inspired and motivated by the immense range of skills and talents that are focused on managing and reducing the threat from cyber criminals that we all face.

Many presentations on cyber often look at parallels on how previous challenges that have blighted business have been addressed. By taking this approach cyber risk can take on the mantle of being manageable to even the wariest executive. During one such presentation, delivered expertly by an individual working in law enforcement, he compared todays cyber security challenge to that of car crime and made a couple of statements that really grabbed my attention. He stated that in the late 80s and early 90s, due to the rise of the ‘hot hatch’, car crime soared and then started to drop significantly. Despite what we may have thought, he pointed out that the Police were not responsible for this reduction in car crime.

The way in which car crime has been significantly reduced gives us a template on how cyber crime can be addressed... 

 

Read more over at Cyber Insights, brought to you by the National Cyber Skills Centre.

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