A growing tension has been proliferating in the modern enterprise, shallow, but just under the surface. The recent CrowdStrike outage punctuated this tension in dramatic fashion — and what we saw coming all along, is here now. Revolutionary technology shifts come fast and are integrated quickly into the day-to-day operations of the business. In return, cybersecurity strategies to protect and enable these shifts need to evolve at the same pace.
Over the last three decades, we’ve ventured deeper and deeper into an era of connectivity. Starting with the desktop, to LAN configurations, the internet and the cloud environment, and now the reemergence of artificial intelligence. As cyber threats evolved and scaled in cost and damages, the focus of cybersecurity unilaterally turned to our number one competition — hackers. When this focus changed, we forgot cybersecurity is not only about our war against bad actors, but our responsibility to enable resilience and innovation.
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Source: Trend Micro
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