Ritesh Guttoo is the EY Africa, India and Middle East cybersecurity leader, where he was recently responsible for the implementation of a Centre of Excellence for cybersecurity services in Africa.<\/p>\n
Guttoo has over 15 years of cybersecurity and cyber forensics experience, having previously worked at PwC Mauritius as an IT security consultant, and then later as a senior manager.<\/p>\n
He also worked as an IT security specialist at the Mauritius State Bank, and as the IT project lead at MKD Chartered, before joining EY in 2017 as an associate director.<\/p>\n
During his career, Guttoo has successfully designed multiple Security Operations Centres (SOCs) for clients.<\/p>\n
In this interview, Guttoo meets with Michael Avery from Business Talk to discuss the latest trends in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n
He explains how digitalisation is affecting cybersecurity efforts, and how organisations are responding a rise in security threats.<\/p>\n
He also discusses the types of cyberattacks being observed currently, notably ransomware-as-a-service.<\/p>\n
Finally, Guttoo makes several predictions about which cybersecurity trends are likely to arise over the next five years, including a possible increased threat to IoT devices.<\/p>\n
The full interview with Ritesh Guttoo from EY is embedded below.<\/p>\n