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Metin Mitchell - Managing Partner
cybersecurity
Cybersecurity skills shortage – we are trying to solve the wrong problem
There is a global shortage of cybersecurity skills, yet cybersecurity is the fastest growing and most pressing business issue for most corporates.
In all the solutions offered to solve this problem, I don’t believe they are going to help corporates within the timeframes needed – and actually I don’t think they willl solve the fundamental problem.
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Two Thirds of Middle East Bank CEOs at Risk of Losing Jobs According to Metin Mitchell Research
News release
14 February 2018
Two thirds of bank chief executives (71%) in the Middle East could be at risk of losing their jobs because they are not managing cybersecurity risks effectively.
71% of Middle East bank CEOs at risk of losing their jobs
It used to be said that the only certainties in life were death and taxes. To this grim list a third is now added: you will be victim to a cyberattack. No company, no organization, no individual is immune.
The quickest way for a CEO to lose his or her job is to be ill prepared for an attack. How well a CEO prepares and how well their team deals with a cyberattack will all determine whether the CEO gets to keep their job when the bank is attacked.