2CONNECTIVITY
Enabling and protecting safe connectivity is the core mission of cybersecurity. At its most basic definition, cybersecurity is about allowing or denying access to information. That is how information is protected. And while the extraordinary adoption of the Internet may certainly have been powered by recognition of the incredible benefits of connectivity, it comes with risk.
The triumph of collaboration and connectivity coded into the core of the Internet has been manipulated to attack it. As the connectivity of the early Internet broadened—and with it, new targets—so too did the breadth and depth of the attacks. Every cyberattacker has at least one substantial advantage. As Sun Tzu succinctly stated in The Art of War, “In conflict, direct confrontation will lead to engagement and surprise will lead to victory.” Threat actors can choose when and where to strike.
When they do attack, they strike from multiple places, focusing their multifaceted approaches on your points of weakness—discovered through relentless attempts to breach the infrastructure that houses whatever data is most valuable for their own intent.
Each attacker may learn ...
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