Cyber’s Focus On Prevention Hasn’t Worked, Making Cyber Resilience Elusive


We’ve spent decades chasing the illusion of “perfecting prevention.” The industry has poured billions into digital walls, endpoint solutions, SIEM, SOAR and user awareness training—all to build a world in which breaches don’t happen.

However, that world doesn’t exist. The cloud-first shift, SaaS sprawl and identity-driven access have fragmented the enterprise environment and expanded the attack surface in all cardinal directions. In this landscape, prevention has fallen short and been outpaced. Successful attacks keep rising. Credential theft. Exploits. Lateral movement. Data exfiltration. The breach isn’t the exception—it’s the pattern. Stop trying to stop every attack. Start building resilience.

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Source: Forbes News


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