Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Few business people outside IT departments have any knowledge of current information security threats, according to BH Consulting founder and chief executive Brian Honan. “In many businesses, few non-IT people have heard of even big information security threats, such as the Heartbleed vulnerability or attacks like the one on Sony Pictures,” he told Computer Weekly. This lack of familiarity of the continually changing threats to information security is one of the biggest challenges to raising the cyber literacy and security awareness of non-technical executives, said Honan. “To many people in the business side of things, cyber security is something that is in the background, or something they pay attention to only for regulatory compliance reasons,” he said. Despite the growing importance of information security to business, added Honan, there is still not a good understanding of the issues by the business. “Information security professionals struggle to engage the business on the topic because they tend to focus only on the technical aspects using terms and concepts unknown outside IT,” he said. “This makes information security a mysterious part of the organisation that is associated with telling people in the business that they cannot do things because of security.” Consequently, information security […]
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