Cyber Security

Data security is a regular headline in global news. As the internet became a place to trade, the amount of personal data retained by vendors escalated including payment card and banking details. All of this data has value to the extent that cyber criminals buy and sell it. Hackers operate as businesses in their own right, and the longer they can remain inside target systems, the more data they can steal — we describe this as dwell time. Even today with sophisticated tools and approaches, this could still be measured in days, sometimes months. Over the past 2 years the number of cyber incidences has increased by 72%, affecting hundreds of millions of people. With the advent of AI and the intellectual property these models contain, protecting them becomes imperative and so organisations need to think about how best to do this, but there is no one solution or product available to achieve it. Customers need to defend against penetration, data theft, software vulnerabilities and unauthorised access amongst others and whilst there are many tools available they need to be integrated and managed by other tools. This has driven a shift to a holistic approach to cyber security including architecting a fully resilient architecture, as well as Security as a Service (SECaaS), a market estimated to grow by over 16% year on year.