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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.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect and be enforceable from 25th May 2018, and the enhanced data protection regulation contained within it could have far reaching implications for UK businesses, particularly those in the travel sector.

All large professional services organisations have considered remote working for their teams. You might be a large law firm offering one day a week working from home, or a finance house with a client-facing team that’s on the move. Maybe you’re an HR Director who’s noticed how few people are in the office at any one time.

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.

The results of a global study, conducted by job site Indeed, shows that the number of people looking for jobs in the cyber security industry in the UK was just 31.6 per cent of the number of jobs posted.