Can be blamed for an attack, or for financial necessity.
The severity of cyber-attacks is directly contributing to job losses.
Of 500 UK IT, resilience and cybersecurity professionals surveyed, 37% reported that cyber-attacks resulted in dismissals. “For some organisations, staff seen to be responsible could have been dismissed,” the report said. “For others, the fallout from an attack may have made redundancies a financial necessity.”
Chris Butler, resilience director at Databarracks, said: "Today, IT teams are faced with significantly more risk and threats to the continuity of their organisations, which can have a profound impact on their wellbeing. But the same can be said for employees across a business.
"Staff may be uncertain about what an attack means for the future of their company, and by extension their own job security. Your first line of defence is your staff, and so it is crucial that they are kept well-trained and appropriately informed in the event of an incident."
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
