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CYBERSECURITY- There is no denying that we live in an age of efficiency. Gone are the days of 450 television channels. The appeal now is for a more curated experience with a Netflix subscription. The “less is more” strategy may have started as an architectural design concept, but it’s now taking over in all aspects of today’s cultural landscape. In medicine, the health care industry has taken heat for wasteful spending and unnecessary tests that can lead to false positives, so the shift has gone to patient-centered care. Why shouldn’t the same be true for enterprise security? It’s easy to believe that a chief information security officer (CISO) should know about every activity on their network, but this only creates dangerous distractions and busy work that is not always meaningful work. The industry is in need of a different approach to protecting a company’s sensitive data.
The Problem
Cybersecurity has never been more prominent in the news than it was in 2017. Fifty-five percent of respondents said their organizations had to manage public scrutiny of a breach in the last year, according to Cisco’s recent report (registration required). Colossal breaches made headlines across the globe. This can largely be attributed to a tectonic shift in the nature of adversaries. As hacking tools have become more readily available and malicious activity is now more easily monetized, it’s not a matter of if, but when a data breach will occur.
Focus On The Threats That Matter
A strong security solution will utilize data from a variety of sources to distill disparate events into one cohesive story. The strategy shifts from focusing on the individual alerts to zooming out of the data and looking at the overall behavior patterns that are required to carry out a data breach. In this regard, it’s no longer about just putting up defense systems to keep out the “bad guys,” but rather strategically observing your data to determine normalization and then having the insight to identify the unusual patterns.
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