Security News > 2021 > January > Expert: Manpower is a huge cybersecurity issue in 2021
Changing threats, volume of threats, and ransomware plague organizations.
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Marcus Fowler, director of strategic threat for Darktrace and former CIA officer, about ways to help cybersecurity professionals get their jobs done more easily.
Karen Roby: As we roll into 2021 now, what are, in your opinion, the biggest threats we're facing in cybersecurity?
Marcus Fowler: You put a good point out there in threats because I think there are two areas where people are concerned.
For me, personally, a more concerning threat is an insider threat, which can come through something like a supply chain, but it is somebody already behind the walls and kind of taking advantage of intellectual property, or espionage, or doing damage to a company.
My greatest stress every day was as a manager and as a leader, am I using my critical human resources in the most efficient way against the most credible and imminent threats? It was really hard for me day in, day out to say with confidence that I was, but something like an AI analyst or this autonomous helping you with threat prioritization, helping your people get further in their day, in terms of all the different investigations they're going is really an enabler and powerful.