22nd Annual e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress 2024 | AKJ Associates | 27 February 2024 | Park Plaza Victoria, London, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, UK, SW1V 1EQ

After another year of escalating attacks, huge data breaches and nation state involvement, cybersecurity is without question at the top of agendas across governments and private sector Boards. According to one recent survey, in critical sectors such as financial services, cybersecurity is on Board agendas at least quarterly and often even more frequently. Something has to give. The scale of the threat to our increasingly digital world is such that the old excuses no longer wash. And some organisations are finally biting the bullet and adopting solutions which have been long known but deemed too hard to adopt. For example, zero trust is increasingly seen as an essential practice for enforcing leastprivileged access to everything from networks and applications to users, devices, and workloads. Best practice cybersecurity teams are prioritizing the adoption of zero trust frameworks, along with automation and security orchestration. In our new environment, cybersecurity professionals are facing a host of new threats. Flexible working, an increased reliance on cloud and SaaS, staff availability shortages, and the increase in targeted attacks against under-pressure employees are putting organisations around the world under even more strain. Add to that the latest economic and geopolitical pressures, and the resurgence of nation-state attacks, cyberattacks as cold warfare and economic crime as a material threat to national security and prosperity, and it’s clear that information-sharing and collaboration have never been more critical to our ability to defend systems and data against cybercriminals.