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sandbox them to check out links and so on before we let them through .
That ’ s not perfect and some of the adversaries put in place mechanisms to get past those detections . And then , when it arrives in someone ’ s inbox , we rely on the human to check , although we provide education and we do tests with users to make sure they are as vigilant as possible .
But attackers are using very sophisticated methods and it can be hard for staff to pick everything out . If some of the threats get through , we ’ re then reliant on trying to detect some malicious software that ’ s possibly already got a foothold in the organisation and by then , it ’ s beginning to get a little
Cybercrime is accelerating fast in the wrong direction and it ’ s important that we try to keep pace .
bit too late . Garrison has allowed us to have much more confidence . If the first few layers don ’ t detect it and a human is enticed to click on something which is well crafted , then that ’ s another thing , but with Garrison , it helps keep the malware contained . This has strengthened our phishing defences .
How do you innovate with security at the heart of what you do ?
We ’ ve got a great security innovation team which we ’ ve created over the last few years , with many enthusiastic and intelligent people who are looking at various different ways to solve problems . We invest a lot of time with different communities around the globe including the big names like Google and Microsoft , but also with some of the cybersecurity startup communities . We ’ re also sponsors of the London Cyber Innovation Centres and we ’ re expanding out to the different regions like Manchester and NCSC in Cheltenham . We try to stay connected with all of those and meet a lot of startups . We get approached by a lot of different companies and ideas and we ’ re very lucky to get early access to those , which is something that enables us to try to stay ahead of the threats because we know that some of these adversaries are extremely good at innovating themselves .
How does the pressure to digitise affect your security strategy and how do you adapt this in line with your Digital Transformation goals ?
Digitisation is both a benefit and a challenge . I think there ’ s some great opportunities to move away from some of the legacy technologies and modernise by implementing some of the new digital technologies that have been designed for the current threats .
The challenge we have is that there ’ s so many and it ’ s hard to choose the ones that are effective . Many come with promises and don ’ t necessarily deliver . The efficacy of some of the cybersecurity products is really important to us and we have to take time to look at that .
I think the new technologies offer opportunities but of course they also introduce new risks and threat vectors . Cybercrime is accelerating fast in the wrong direction and it ’ s important that we try to keep pace . We see cloud as central to our future and part of our Digital Transformation and therefore we have started to investigate using Garrison Ultra . u www . intelligentciso . com
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