Phishing, smishing, social engineering, trojans, DDoS - confusing jargon to many and words that most of us were blissfully ignorant of only 10 years ago. We are already hearing more about them every day and, given the sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks on organisations' IT systems in recent years, such words are likely to become very much part of everyday conversation. The most recent piece of jargon to catch the public eye is "ransomware". If you had asked most NHS staff earlier this year, probably only a handful of non-IT experts would have known what that term means. Now, after the shocking ransomware attack - known as WannaCry - that affected more than 200,000 organisations in 150 countries, the threat posed by cyber attacks has become very real and one that leaders in all sectors must be aware of.
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