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Identifying and Assessing Organizational Weaknesses

The cornerstones of any successful cybersecurity strategy are identifying and effectively assessing organizational weaknesses as well prioritizing business needs and roadmaps. With the rapidly evolving threat landscape and continuous increase of the attack surface and sheer volume of attacks itself, we must be able to make faster, smarter decisions. Weaknesses can span from unpatched software to negligent insider behavior, which can create exploitable gaps in security. Utilizing techniques such as compliance and regulatory requirements, business needs, emerging new technologies and threats, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and threat modeling help identify and assess these ...

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