What do Anthem, British Airways, CareFirst, Experian, Home Depot, the IRS, Japan Airlines, JP Morgan Chase, NASDAQ, Sony Pictures, Staples, and the US Office of Personnel Management have in common? The answer: they all experienced significant data breaches…and that was just 2015.
What’s going on here?
The fact of the matter is that cybersecurity is getting increasingly difficult, and attacking large organizations is getting easier and easier. Enterprise security managers must get their security right all the time every time, but hackers only need to mount a single successful attack to compromise an entire enterprise.
This problem hasn’t gone unnoticed, of course. CEOs are getting anxious. Board rooms are taking notice. Risk managers are increasingly worried. Cybersecurity is no longer a technology problem. It is a business risk that executives must address. As a result, security budgets are up. Cybersecurity laws are finally getting some teeth. And the security vendor community has been innovating at a frantic clip.
And yet, the fundamentals are still there. Security is simply too hard and cyberattacks are just too easy. We need to change the equation – and fast.
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