Insights Interview: Geopolitics and cyber threats, with the ISF’s Steve Durbin

2024-11-07

Geopolitics is increasingly influencing cybersecurity. The growth of online espionage, the potential for attacks by state actors, and governments turning a blind eye to cybercrime are all increasing risk. At the same time, our growing dependency on connectivity, in government, in critical infrastructure and for day to day business, makes cyberspace an attractive target. But it's not always been this way. In the early days of information and IT security, nation state threats were...

Geopolitics is increasingly influencing cybersecurity.

The growth of online espionage, the potential for attacks by state actors, and governments turning a blind eye to cybercrime are all increasing risk.

At the same time, our growing dependency on connectivity, in government, in critical infrastructure and for day to day business, makes cyberspace an attractive target.

But it's not always been this way. In the early days of information and IT security, nation state threats were rare.

But, as Steve Durbin, CEO of the Information Security Forum points out, a lot has changed over the last few decades, and especially in the last few years.

In this Insights Interview editor Stephen Pritchard asks whether we are now more at risk than ever, if the current level of cyber threats could spill over into a more overt conflict and whether organisations have the resources to operate in a more dangerous world.

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