Have you made your 2022 cybersecurity ‘to do’ list yet?

  • Date: 24-Jan-2022
  • Source: Gulf Business
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:UAE
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Have you made your 2022 cybersecurity ‘to do’ list yet?

To live, we must eat; to function, we must sleep; to succeed, we must learn. To solve problems, we must digitise. Business transformation is inexorably linked to data, applications, and connectivity. The change is everywhere. And yet our fourth industrial revolution, which has essentially spliced humans and their digital inventions, may only just be gathering steam. A report by the on the UAE’s history of digital transformation was recently issued to coincide with the nation’s Golden Jubilee. It revealed a highly digitised society. Almost 98 per cent of the population have smartphones, 99 per cent are active on social media, and 530 million smart apps were downloaded in 2020. And that is just civil society. To support the business ecosystem, the UAE’s strategy for the fourth industrial revolution includes plans to skill the workforce in areas like nanotechnology, bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and even robotic healthcare. But each problem we solve with digital technology, exposes us to malicious parties. A recent report showed 80 per cent of security professionals had experienced increases in attack levels in their organisation because of remote work — a technology deployed (very effectively) to tackle a pressing problem. The pandemic did not cause a spike in