Innovation

The cyber security engineer

With phishing, whaling, spearing, ransomware, malware and spam, it’s hardly surprising that cyber security engineers are in demand.

16 July 2019

The internet is full of terrors. They arrive in unwary inboxes, are clicked on by unsuspecting employees, and cause expensive havoc when they’re unleashed into the organisation.

In fact, cyber crime is so prevalent that Accenture predicts the costly fallout will exceed $5 trillion by 2023. McAfee reported an average of 480 new threats a minute in 2018. And through the guise of delivering pizza to a bank’s HQ, expert white hat Jamie Woodruff was ultimately able to gain access to the bank’s servers too.

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