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I have the privilege of meeting and discussing cyber security to a large number of people across a plethora of industries and markets. They all take Cyber security very seriously, all have representation at different degrees at board level, all use a blend of technical and operational controls to protect themselves, all are at varying levels of cyber maturity and all have challenges around, resources, education and budget when dealing with a very dynamic cyber security landscape.

We’re living in a very fast moving and ever-changing world. A world where cyber security (or the lack of it) is main stream, daily news. Market and technology developments have opened growing opportunities for criminal activity.

Over the past month alone the CNS emergency response team have attended a number of incidents that have followed very similar and well known patterns; the culprit being an active and prolonged attack against office 365 based resources, now, this is nothing new and has been a well known avenue of attack for some time.

The news is now widespread, more than 50 million Facebook user’s data has been accessed and allegedly misused by Cambridge Analytica.

It will come as no surprise that in the current climate, organisations across the board are facing on-going and persistent threats to their IT systems. The news over the past year has been awash with stories of some of our largest companies and institutions being attacked and the statistics gathered on cyber-crime are concerning to say the least.