Forbes November 26, 2024
Ashley Stephenson is the CTO of Corero Network Security, a leading provider of DDoS protection solutions.
“A defender needs to be right every time, but an attacker only needs to be right once” is a well-worn saying among cybersecurity professionals. In other words, an intruder has unlimited time and opportunity to jiggle every door handle to find their way in, as it takes just one unpatched system, one misconfigured setting or a single employee who clicks on a malicious link to compromise a network.
That’s why network security is often described as being asymmetric—because while defenders are constrained by limited resources and time, attackers have the luxury of choosing when and how to strike. This asymmetry not only confers an...
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