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There are just way too many of them
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There are just way too many of them
AT THE TT Internet Governance Forum in January, cybersecurity professionals considered the essentials of hardening ICT business systems in the session The ART of Cybersecurity: Attacks, Risks and Threats.
A top international cybersecurity expert says security systems in Barbados and the rest of the region are about five years behind where they need to be.And while he stopped short of giving them a failing grade, Ricardo Martinez, chief revenue officer of the Florida-based DigitalEra Group that has been working within the region for the past 20 years, said those systems were well below international standards.His comments come in the wake of a cyberattack at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), just over a week ago, which crippled operations at the island’s sole public hospital.