Focus: Securing new technology

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The scarcity of information security professionals with the required depth and breadth of experience is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses. As businesses seek to gain competitive edge through digital transformation, they are increasingly exposing themselves to increasing risk of cyber attack, but finding people with the right skills to enable to business to embrace new technologies and yet remain secure in the face of industrialised, organised cyber crime is extremely difficult. The skills shortage, however, has raised questions about whether organisations really know what skills they need and where to find them or how to develop them. In the UK, the vote in favour of leaving the European Union has further raised concerns about being able to import and export skills once the UK is out of the EU, but most professional organisations are urging calm and pragmatism in the wake of the Brexit vote. For the information security professionals themselves, it is constant challenge to evolve their skills to cope with businesses’ increasing use of cloud-based services, virtualisation, mobile technologies and IP-connected devices rapidly adding to the internet of things (IoT). Information security professionals need to prepare themselves for dealing with things like identity and access management in the cloud and in an increasingly IoT-enabled world. Today's information security professionals understand security is a blend of social, people and technology, and to be successful, they have to be capable across all of them, according to Adrian Davis, European managing director of (ISC)2.

Vendor:
TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Posted:
Feb 8, 2021
Published:
Sep 29, 2016
Format:
PDF
Type:
eGuide
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