Hacker Lessons: Rethinking Modern Security Gaps

Today, in 2022, organizations and individuals face a serious and increasing digital threat.

Cyber incidents, referred to as 'hacking', are more and more common. These incidents cause suffering from business disruption and loss of data, and the victims also need to contend with the subsequent aftermath.

This aftermath could be the loss of trust in their clients or a drop in share price for public companies. Furthermore, these organizations can also receive punitive fines if specific data types are lost, costing Office hundreds of millions of pounds.

With this threat occurring every day, the cyber security industry has risen worth £10.1 billion in the UK in 2021, rising 77% from £5.7 billion in 2017.

Cyber Security Industry

Due to this situation, the security industry has created multiple standards and frameworks to follow, as well as software solutions, services, membership, and government organizations to conferences.

Whilst each of these provide advice and solutions to digital risks. They may have multiple mitigation strategies, not all of which have empirical evidence of their effectiveness; with varied communication and implementation, there is substantial room for different and diverse levels of effectiveness.

One example that comes to mind is controls pertaining to malware protection. Whilst…