A quarter of firms in MEA face dire cybersecurity skills gap

A quarter of firms in MEA face dire cybersecurity skills gap

The confidence of IT managers and their approach to battling cyber attacks plummets after their organisation falls victim to ransomware, a new report by Sophos says.

The survey, 'Cybersecurity: The Human Challenge' says IT managers at organisations hit by ransomware are nearly three times as likely to feel "significantly behind“ when it comes to understanding cyberthreats, compared to their peers in organisations that were unaffected (17 per cent versus 6 per cent).

More than one third (35 per cent) of ransomware victims said that recruiting and retaining skilled IT security professionals was their single biggest challenge when it comes to cybersecurity, compared with just 19 per cent of those who hadn't been hit.

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When it comes to security focus, the survey