Cybersecurity Outsourcing: Unnecessary Cost or Clever Investment?
The last 14 months have only reiterated that cybersecurity is not an issue we can ignore, and given that it is ever evolving, is certainly not an area that businesses can afford to scrimp on. Cybercrime has not disappeared in this time of adversity, instead hackers are thriving off the dispersed workforce, over-complex networks and increased vulnerabilities caused by the rise in personal and unsecured end-devices being used for work. A Zero Trust survey carried out by Gigamon found that 84% of EMEA businesses have seen a rise in cybercrime over the last year, with 41% of UK respondents claiming that they have mainly been subject to an increase in phishing schemes. Furthermore, the potential consequences of cybercrime are becoming increasingly severe, for example the string of attacks against bodies involved with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, including pharmaceutical companies, the cold storage supply chain transporting the vaccine and the European Medicines Agency.