Cover Story: The trouble with shock and awe

Martin Brown of BT explains to Connected how it's tough to communicate the scale of contemporary threats

Martin Brown, chief security futures architect with BT.

The scale of data breaches in the current era is such that it’s hard for any individual to reasonably process just how much information is being taken. Whereas the data breaches of this century’s first decade came in big but numbers that were easy to comprehend, now it’s tough to put a human face on the damage caused.

“I think people have become a bit immune to it,” Martin Brown, chief security futures ...