TRENDING rooms , hackers are waking up each day with new methods of attack , praying on businesses weakened by the year ’ s challenges and those vulnerable to exposure . However , with a security talent gap out there , businesses won ’ t be able to hire enough employees with the right skills to protect the company . As such , 2021 will see a shift in mentality with businesses making cybersecurity training an aspect of every role and all job descriptions moving forward . This in turn will help to close the talent gap that ’ s long plagued the security industry .
Government and companies to deploy trusted digital identities
Chris Harris , Europe , the Middle East and
Africa ( EMEA ) Technical Director at Thales
Internal cybersecurity skills training to close external skills gap
The explosion of remote working in 2020 has brought with it more risks than businesses could ever expect . While employees now sit on couches accessing an organisation ’ s most sensitive data from their living
As the world becomes increasingly more digitalfocused , 2021 will see more digital identities initiatives popping up , which will have to come along secure digital identity verification solutions based on official ID document checks . Despite the way things have transformed for people over the last year , physical documents are still required to verify who people are , like for banking purposes for instance , with ID documents like passports and driving licenses having to be taken in , scanned or details inserted . In today ’ s world , through safety and convenience , people want to be able to verify themselves digitally . To make this happen , a private and public sector cooperation is expected to offer users convenience and security when trying to get authenticated through online platforms . 2021 will be the first year that digital identity becomes mainstream in the UK .
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