What’s a cyber range and why should businesses care?
Think of it as a very high-fidelity replica or clone of a business’s corporate network. It’s a safe space to test and train tools to see how effective they are at defending against attacks.
Many of your clients are banks, public service-facing orgs or national infrastructure providers – do enterprises need these kinds of sophisticated tools?
We’re now seeing a down-market trend where security teams in more mature businesses are getting better at dealing with sophisticated attacks, and hackers are now going after ‘softer’ targets.
What would you say are the major challenges facing businesses today?
It depends on the maturity of the organisation. But something that’s affecting every business right now, early-on and mature, is finding, building and retaining talented staff.
Also staying on top of your tech inventories. Less mature businesses which have spent a lot of years building up their security operations centres may not have the right tools to prevent against today’s attacks.
What’s important when building security teams?
You need to look at your budget. How much money are you able to spend? How many staff do you need? Will they be internally or externally hired? then put them through several tests.
We have something called a candidate assessment which puts the applicant through a series of challenges and skills tests which are measured along the way.
We also constantly attack ourselves to measure our own security and to see how our own security teams would handle it.
If you were awarded a grant of $500k what would you spend it on?
More engineering and more product development. And then there’s areas across the company that we could improve on, for example our data centre and our support teams.
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