From the comfort of the Gloucester Shed—my “home office” that’s now gaining notoriety internally at Rapid7—I recently watched three colleagues speak in a webinar about the ways the world is changing around us and the relationships we have to nurture as a business community in order to navigate the inconstant world we find ourselves in. We are in strange times, indeed.
As I listened, however, I was acutely aware that while the “where” has changed, the challenges we face as an increasingly global economy are largely staying the same.
For example, Simon Parry from our partners at Development Bank of Wales spoke candidly about the challenges his organization has seen helping to get funds into small- and medium-sized enterprises in some of the most economically challenged regions of the U.K. Their goal is to ensure those fragile economies and businesses are able to return to business as usual when we emerge from this crisis.
Clearly, DevBank Wales has a very important role to play in the U.K. economy, and I imagine many other companies out there are having to navigate similar pressures.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many businesses into survival mode, and the focus has been on ensuring colleagues can reach the tools they need to continue to operate. What it has also done is bring into sharp contrast the continuing challenges businesses have around cybersecurity. As Simon succinctly put during the webinar, “The chair has changed, but the issues remain the same.”So, what do those challenges look like, and how can businesses overcome them with challenges outsourced detection response operations solve
