Current State Cyber Challenges and why communication is important

Currently I’d list some of the major challenges we face as a civilisation as the following (clearly not exhaustive etc.)

The general population largely don’t understand cyber

Lots of people think there is nothing they can really do

People have shockingly bad personal cyber security

A large number of organisations have shockingly poor cyber security postures

People’s passwords are often ridiculously weak

People re-use passwords all the time

People seem to believe we have “magic nation state cyber shields”

Organisation’s largely do not invest adequately in cyber security

Leadership

The problem with gatekeeping in the cyber security industry

Stark Realities

Imagine having an industry where you can’t be in it without already being an expert in all fields, imagine having to be able to command policy and drive strategy but not having anyone having ever helped you learn how to do this, imagine that if you did all the activities involved with secure service and yet people say you aren’t part of the industry because your job title doesn’t have the word “security” in it and imagine if that you are told you aren’t part of the cyber security industry because you also have to worry about budgets, sales, marketing, new business initiatives, IT services and well anything else!

What would happen if we had this as our cyber security industry principles… well that’s simple?