Cybersecurity Dive April 26, 2024
Defenders aren’t measured by pure wins or losses. Intrusions will happen, and their job is to keep a bad situation from getting worse.
Success is a fickle and often intangible goal in cybersecurity. After all, there aren’t many jobs that operate from an assumed position of weakness.
Defenders readily acknowledge it’s not a matter of if an organization will get attacked, but rather when. This makes success nuanced in cybersecurity — bad things can and will happen, but it could always be worse.
Avoiding worst-case scenarios is the ultimate goal for defenders — the less impactful an incident becomes, the better.
“The reality [is] that most organizations will, unfortunately, suffer some type of incident. It’s what that type of incident...