Session: The Global Data and Cyber Security Skills Gap: Current Trends and Future Directions
Rapid and widespread data security models have changed the nature of work, and digital skills are now regarded as essential for the modern workforce. Employees need digital skills to work with new data management and privacy technologies and to keep up to date with rapid technological advancements. Data is central to business success in today's world. Increasingly, the insights it provides are being recognized as an enabler for more accurate, evidence-based decision-making. When it comes to increasing internal knowledge, upskilling existing teams and their understanding can be a vital step when a business faces a skills gap. Mandatory staff training, appointing data protection and cyber security champions, and circulating reading materials can help boost awareness and educate employees that might be lacking essential knowledge. Enterprises need to sufficiently invest in their data security maturity and data protection teams to retain privacy staff, upskill talent to fill open roles, and prioritise privacy training efforts to ensure all employees support privacy initiatives.
Bio
Onur Korucu has started and continued her professional life in multinational professional services companies such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. She had the opportunity to work as an experienced consultant and part of senior management in different world geographies. Recently she worked as a GRC, Cyber Security and Data Protection senior manager within Avanade UK & Ireland before moving into her new role; VP of Consulting Cyber Security and Data Protection at one of the Microsoft partners.
She is an information security, compliance, and privacy professional focused primarily on emerging technologies from information security and data protection perspectives. On top of her technical engineering degree and M.Sc degree, she obtained her LL.M in Information and Technology Law. She also completed a Business Analytics executive education program at the University of Cambridge.
She published a book about risk-based global approaches to improve data protection. She has also been publishing articles in prestigious magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Tomorrow Magazine about trending technology, cyber security and data privacy trends. She was one of the lecturers for the Cyber Security Masters programme at Sabanci University Istanbul. She is a Women in Tech world ambassador and IAPP Ireland Chapter Chair. She was nominated for the GRC Role Model of the Year 2022 and Cyber Women of the Year 2022 awards. She continues to appear in seminars, and conferences around the world as a speaker. She has CISM, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL-F, and ISO 27001 LA certifications.