As insurance and pension providers and government agencies send their employees home to avoid contact with the Coronavirus, many cyber-security teams are facing the unenviable challenge of securing sprawling, vulnerable networks.

If you search the Internet for the first example of hacking, you’ll come across the name of Nevil Maskelyne. He was an Edwardian magician, inventor and businessman.

A few years ago, a breach that impacted several million people would have been big news. In 2019 roughly 3.5 billion people saw their personal data stolen in the top two security breaches of that year alone.

Cyber security has an air of mystery to it. Something hidden in the shadows and only able to be understood by technologists and spies.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for cyber security but also changed the very nature of the beast.

The Covid- 19 pandemic has us thinking differently about a lot of things. Security is high on that list.

Capita is helping organisations to improve their resilience though initiatives that build capacity and agility in technology, security, customer management and people aspects.

Paul Key, Group Chief Information Security Officer at Capita, shares five key building blocks that can reduce the impact of cyber-crime on your organisation.

Cyber security is a broad term which means many different things to many different people, and can often seem to be incredibly complex, expensive, and full of pitfalls at every turn.

It may only be 2022, but in this decade the world is already proving to be a very different place to the decade before.