How to offer cyber security services

Cybersecurity is a primary consideration for the channel, and needs to look beyond basic security protection tools such as antivirus, malware protection, and anti-ransomware software. Despite this, there are still those that harbour distorted views on cybersecurity. Frequently, simply starting the conversation about providing cybersecurity can make channel organisations unfamiliar with it, feel very uneasy. 

Accumulated misconceptions have led to beliefs that providing cyber security is a job which requires reading high-level code, vigilante heroism and the task of taking on the world’s hackers and shut down ‘The Matrix.’ In reality, the only similarity to any sci-fi film is that reality is fairly dull in comparison. 

digital transformation. This means smaller businesses can now leverage data in the same way that only very large businesses could as recently as ten years ago. However, this exposes them to the same risks, but without the relevant infrastructure in place. 

This is why governments and regulatory bodies around the world have recognised a need to invest in cybersecurity.

Data protection laws

As of September 2019, over 80 countries and independent territories have now adopted comprehensive data protection laws to prohibit disclosure or misuse of information. In Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and rules from industr