Digital transformation, in many ways, is a wonderful thing. Even more prevalent since the pandemic, we have new and more efficient ways of working, 沟通, 采购, 访问医疗, 银行, and so much more – making an incredible difference in people’s lives.
One of the major disadvantages of this is, 当然, the ever-rampant cybersecurity threats and risk to online safety that go hand-in-hand with technological advancement.
32% of businesses in the UK recalled breaches or attacks in the last 12 months, according to DSIT’s* April 2023 Cyber Security Breaches Survey; however this was 69% for large businesses. More generally, in 2022-23, an estimated 14,890 cyber-crimes 记录 被博天堂入口警方逮捕. This is astonishingly almost double the last recorded rates pre-pandemic.
What can we do to help prevent this, personally and as organisations?
For business owners and C-suite execs that are constantly wondering this, Onca Technologies的首席执行官, 科特斯玩具, will be ‘Demystifying Cyber’ at our ScotSoft conference in 9月. Kurtis will go into more detail on how best to protect organisations online, detailing his experiences as a virtual CISO and practical advice for avoiding the same pitfalls.
It’s becoming more evident that engaging employees at all levels in the cybersecurity mindset is imperative in building true resilience. 然而,, the aforementioned Survey noted an apparent decrease in prioritisation of cybersecurity within UK businesses compared to 2022. What’s more, a decline in board engagement with cybersecurity is visible over the last two years. 我们如何建立一个整体, company-wide approach to increasing cyber threats when organisations are losing interest?
在ScotSoft, we have a variety of speaker sessions covering cybersecurity from all angles, with both technical and leadership perspectives.
ScotSoft发言人Callum Wilson, SameTent的创始人, will propose a method of ‘shift left security’ for detecting security issues quickly without slowing down your delivery pipeline. Having found that many organisations have barriers between developers and engineers (who wish to work with agility) and Security (who are not incentivised by agility and typically slow things down), Callum discusses how this efficient approach will help developers find vulnerabilities and coding errors far earlier in the software development process.
IT is forever tasked with forging ahead with improvements in business capability and efficiency, while Cyber has the unenviable task of ensuring that organisations don’t fall foul to a cyber-attack or data breach. Enter a ‘Tech Smackdown’ debate courtesy of Highground.io. emphasising that while there is often tension between these departments, it’s important to understand each other and work together in fighting for the same goal.
在凯蒂·罗文的会议上, the IBM cloud security consultant will cover threat modelling as a way of building security into your designs. Have organisations considered the faults in business logic and any possible attack paths that they might accidentally be building in? Instead of security being an afterthought, learn the best practices behind threat modelling, 以及它如何节省你的时间和金钱.
While varied in topic and target audience, all of these talks run along a similar theme: reinforcing the idea of embedding cybersecurity approaches into every facet of your business, 而且不只是安保团队.
And if you really want to be shaken to your core, Alex Woerndle of My Empire Group will present the genuine horror story of how his 9-year-old successful IT company spanning Australia and Indonesia experienced a malicious hack on its datacentres, starting a waterfall effect that ultimately wiped the company out in under 2 weeks.Key takeaway from this talk being YES, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.
Catch all of these – and so much more – at ScotSoft 2023 in Edinburgh on 28th 9月. 还没买到票? 现在“保护”他们.
There are a limited number of tables and tickets still available for the Young Software Engineer Awards dinner – 书在这里 或联络Catriona Blair (琼娜.blair@chinaqinyu.com).
*ScotSoft现已获得CPD认证, where delegates can gain CPD points for their attendance and participation.*
*科学部, 创新及科技, 前身为文化部, 媒体和体育(DCMS)