Think back – if you can remember those halcyon days – to last November, before the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold in the West. Like a lot of organizations, you may have taken the opportunity, during a quiet holiday period, to sketch out your cybersecurity budget for 2020. Whatever you decided your company’s IT security budget should be, you’ve probably overrun it.
That’s nothing to be embarrassed about, of course. No-one had “deal with a global pandemic” as a line item in their business plan for 2021.