well let's bring in our guests mark isaac is a lecturer in computer network security at the university of central lancashire he joins us from preston in the united kingdom and mark einstein is chief analyst for digital services at japan that's a research and advisory firm focused on i.t. he joins us from tokyo welcome to both our guests marc einstein let me start with you if i may because you've worked with companies around the world in setting up their cyber defenses but given the scale of the threat today in the sophistication of cyber attacks are we losing the battle against the hackers and if so why. i think you can make the case that we are you know now we have this phenomenon called the internet of things which is several years old now and you know this is the number one reason that companies are really hesitant to be more and more connected i think what is so interesting about this is that the majority of the hacks that we see are actually not very sophisticated they're caused by things or having the all passwords or passwords like 12345 and you know these basic mistakes are hol

well let's bring in our guests mark isaac is a lecturer in computer network security at the university of central lancashire he joins us from preston in the united kingdom and mark einstein is chief analyst for digital services at japan that's a research and advisory firm focused on i.t. he joins us from tokyo welcome to both our guests marc einstein let me start with you if i may because you've worked with companies around the world in setting up their cyber defenses but given the scale of the threat today in the sophistication of cyber attacks are we losing the battle against the hackers and if so why. i think you can make the case that we are you know now we have this phenomenon called the internet of things which is several years old now and you know this is the number one reason that companies are really hesitant to be more and more connected i think what is so interesting about this is that the majority of the hacks that we see are actually not very sophisticated they're caused by things or having to all passwords or passwords like 12345 and you know these basic mistakes are hold

well let's bring in our guests mark isaac is a lecturer in computer network security at the university of central lancashire he joins us from preston in the united kingdom and mark einstein is chief analyst for digital services at japan that's a research and advisory firm focused on i.t. he joins us from tokyo welcome to both our guests marc einstein let me start with you if i may because you've worked with companies around the world in setting up their cyber defenses but given the scale of the threat today in the sophistication of cyber attacks are we losing the battle against the hackers and if so why. i think you can make the case that we are you know now we have this phenomenon called the internet of things which is several years old now and you know this is the number one reason that companies are really hesitant to be more and more connected i think what is so interesting about this is that the majority of the hacks that we see are actually not very sophisticated they're caused by things or having the all passwords or passwords like 12345 and you know these basic mistakes are hol