Reflections from another Cyber Security awareness month

As we close off another successful Cyber Security awareness month in October 2023, the CIISF committee reflects on the many brilliant events hosted throughout October.
Thanks to everyone who has put time and effort into the preparation and running of the month and we look forward to planning for 2024!

Another October has passed and with it another Cyber Security awareness month comes to a close. Islanders have had the privilege of a whole host of events scheduled throughout the month for the promotion of Cyber Security. We’ve learnt the importance of testing our incident response plans during a number of table top exercises, the value of the Cyber Essentials scheme with IASME and even how to rob a bank during our annual Cyber Security conference.

It's been an incredibly busy month for everyone within the industry and it is wonderful to see attendance at the events increasing each year. It’s also promising to see new faces at each event and the importance of Cyber Security being valued to those outside of those of us working within the industry. This is especially true of our annual Cyber Security conference, which many years ago would be isolated to a room full of Cyber Security professionals. What we see now at this conference is a wide range of attendees from many different areas within technology and some working outside, a positive sign that responsibility for Cyber Security is expanding within many businesses and becoming a core part of roles whether you have ‘Security’ within your role title or not.

Lastly a huge thanks must be said for all the speakers, hosts and volunteers who have been integral to ensuring a great month was had by all. A lot has gone into the organisation of each event and without those individuals who have spent considerable amount of their time preparing, they couldn’t have happened.

Now it’s time to start preparing for next year!