The way we do business is being constantly modified by technology. Its impact certainly has a positive side, for example making production and management processes more efficient, making more innovative ways of working possible, cut down the cost to access new technologies. A negative side exists too: a pervasive digitalisation widens the surface of attacks that every company has to take into account in their risks to the business. In particular, cyber threats are rapidly increasing because, despite more tangible threats, they are relatively easy to mount and quite complex to counteract. Cybersecurity is ever promoted to high management meetings, up to the point where they enter the agendas of many CEOs.
The urgency of dealing with cybersecurity is clear to everybody, as nowadays cyber attacks make even the news, but what make cybersecurity a difficult topic is its complexity. Working in cybersecurity means diving into several technical, managerial, organizational, strategic but most of all human topics. It is not enough to have an antivirus if a user is granted the option to shut it off upon downloading the attachment to that email from an unknown sender, but which promises easy money.
To clarify the landscape of cybersecurity, it is commonly divided into nine domains, each being crucial to secure a company and that therefore needs to be discussed and applied to the specific context of the business.