A new consortium of cyber industry experts has been launched in the UK to "change the way businesses manage their cybersecurity".

The Cyber Safety Force (CSF) said it will take a data-driven, collaborative approach to “revolutionise” the way that businesses think about and manage threat defence and risk aversion and facilitate a move from “cyber security to cyber safety”.

Guy Golan, founder of the CSF and global cybersecurity firm Performanta, said that most firms manage cybersecurity through compliance, which forms the "bare minimum" when it comes to achieving cyber safety.

"The CSF has been created to combat this misunderstanding and introduce principles to reform the way businesses think about cybersecurity," he continued. “Clear demand for better protection has enabled us to combine field-leading expertise and actionable data to form a new set of best practices."

The CSF also includes a number of other industry experts, including Greg Sim, founder of cyber group 2020 Partners; Simon Hodgkinson, ex-chief information security officer (CISO) of BP and strategic advisor to leading cybersecurity firms; and Wolfgang Selzer, co-founder and chief executive of myResilience GMBH.

“Cybersecurity is too often viewed as the technical team’s problem," said Simon Hodgkinson. "In fact, CISOs are often fired for poor cybersecurity while the chief executive remains in their position.

"It’s time to take cybersecurity as seriously as physical security and adopt a cyber safety mindset. I’m proud to be pioneering this mission with some of the very best in the business.”

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