Safeguard customers to safeguard business

As the threat level increases, businesses have to take a more sophisticated approach to IT security, writes Jason Walsh

George O'Dowd, managing director of Novi

The recent breach of US-based credit rating agency Equifax – one that has the potential to cause chaos for years to come – shows how serious the threat from hackers has become. No longer the work of 'script kiddies', data breaches are now a sophisticated threat driven by organised crime.

As a result, IT security is no longer the kind of thing that most organisations can handle in-house, said George O'Dowd, managing director ...