The Carey Group is one of the UK’s leading construction and engineering firms. A family-run business for over 50 years, the firm has grown into a multimillion-dollar organization, with customers across commercial, healthcare, residential, retail, industrial, and many other sectors.
Amjad Khan is the infrastructure engineer at the firm, where he manages a team of five with responsibility for on-premises and cloud IT systems and cybersecurity. With over 1,000 users and additional contractors, there’s plenty to keep him busy. In fact, cyber risk is escalating to such levels that UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently published its first-ever guidance document for the industry. It warned that as organizations in the sector that increasingly expand their use of digital technologies, may unwittingly be exposing themselves to phishing, ransomware, supply chain attacks, and other threats. A combination of managing sensitive data and processing high-value payments makes construction firms a particularly lucrative target for cyber-criminals, NCSC warned.
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