A cyber incident can be catastrophic for any company, and all firms would be well-advised to adopt a watertight security approach to security practices.
Despite this, the UK government’s Cyber security breaches survey 2023 found that UK cyber hygiene has declined since 2021, with the use of password policies falling from 79% to 70% and network firewalls from 75% to 67% across the period.
Despite this, the UK government’s Cyber security breaches survey 2023 found that UK cyber hygiene has declined since 2021, with the use of password policies falling from 79% to 70% and network firewalls from 75% to 67% across the period.
In this episode, Rory is joined by Steve Furnell, IEEE senior member and professor of cybersecurity at the University of Nottingham to discuss how IT leaders can drive a cultural shift within their organizations to put security at the forefront of decision-making.
Highlights
“People are choosing less than strong passwords, we could say. But where do they get the support to understand what good looks like? Being given the device choose a strong password is only any use if you know what a strong password is and how to differentiate it from a weak one. ”
“I think the divergence, particularly between the large organizations and the smaller ones, is an issue of awareness and recognition of cybersecurity as a thing that matters or ought to matter to them.”
“If we're thinking about the security team, the CISO or whoever's going in and representing security, they need to be mindful of communicating it in a way that the board, the executive team, the C-suite will understand.”
Footnotes
- What is DevSecOps and why is it important?
- Five things to consider before choosing an MFA solution
- What is two-factor authentication?
- The sooner the FIDO Alliance can shut down passwords, the better
- The top 12 password-cracking techniques used by hackers
- Revealed: The top 200 most common passwords of 2022
- NCSC expands incident response scheme to support smaller at-risk organizations
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