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External threats to the IT security of organisations are pervasive, persistent, and proliferating, while internal issues further complicate the situation.

The world of IT security can be a thankless environment to work in – as evidenced by the Chartered Institute of Information Security’s 2020/21 State of the Profession report, which found that 51% of cybersecurity professionals are kept up at night by the stress of the job and work challenges. Broadly speaking these work challenges can be grouped into two categories – internal difficulties, such as (sometimes) careless employees and an ever-increasing stack of tools to manage, and external difficulties like the ever-evolving threat landscape and the increasingly persistent threat actors who deploy these attacks.

Throughout the year, our six-part Productivity series takes an in-depth look inside the IT department at the trends and topics they face. In this second part, we focus in on cybersecurity across three articles - firstly we will primarily focus upon the external dangers.

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In the balance

Explore the other articles in this series:

Look out for more cybersecurity insights coming later this week - in the meantime...

...check out part one of our six part series which took an in-depth look at the People issues facing the IT department:

Testing times for IT teams

Tech complexity is driving an openness to outsourcing

Sustained skills deficits are placing IT departments under pressure

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