Is Your Company Below the Cyber Poverty Line? Find Out at This Month’s RANT Forum

As if being an information-security specialist wasn’t difficult enough with just the actual job of securing your employer’s systems to worry about, there’s another problem many in the field are facing. Let’s think of it as a kind of internal and external form of public relations, where the infosec professional is forced, sometimes, to over-state their systems’ capabilities and underplay the threats they face in order to keep a nervous customer base confident, while at the same time ensuring management understand that investment in digital security is vital and funding for it should not be cut. It’s the catch-22 of the cyber-security age.

This imbalance, between the public and private faces businesses try to maintain when considering their digital security, is at the heart of the next RANT Forum presentation, “Underperformance in Cyber is Silent,” which will be given by Fredrik Hult. The founder and CEO of Cyber Resilience Ltd., Hult has spent years in industry (with stints in cyber security at BP, Credit Suisse and ABN Amro among others), and is an advocate for strong leadership in cyber. He trained in group dynamics and leadership at the Swedish Defence College and, as he tells the Acumin blog, he is “currently active in pushing the envelope on leadership, threat intelligence, red teaming and cyber maturity frameworks.” From this most informed of perspectives, the view is bleak: but Freddie isn’t just going to outline the problems – he will be offering some possible routes out of the present dilemma.