Augmenting the cybersecurity stack
Cyber attacks are getting out of hand, and every organization is vulnerable. Just looking at recent news:
Clorox had to take certain operations offline due to cyber attack (Reuters)
Discord went offline because over 700K user information were stolen (link)
Prince George's County public school system was hacked (link)
Connecticut school district lost more than $6 million in cyber attack (link)
A large real estate MLS listing vendor was hacked (link)
A number of large shoe law firms hacked earlier this summer (link)
Why is this happening?
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What does this mean? Companies need to upgrade, augment, and replace the current cybersecurity stack.
Replacing current cybersecurity stack is not the most practical and predictably time consuming. The most viable alternative is for organizations to upgrade and augment current cybersecurity stack in the immediate future to reduce the the probability of getting hacked with an aging tech and solution stack.
One of the companies in the portfolio created this data sheet that highlights this core issue of the aging security stack. Threatblockr is one of the solutions that emerged in the last 3 years that augment the current security stack with immediate ROI on day 1 without breaking the cybersecurity budget. For example, benchmarked against having Threatblockr added to their stack, every cybersecurity team can see from the data what their current network security solutions have missed.
Cyber defense remains reactive. New regulations on reporting cyber attacks also ex-post in nature. What every organizations need is a cyber defense fortress to lower the probability of an attack materializing. The stronger the fortress the better.
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1 年Very insightful. Thank you for sharing.?
Founder of Fairown. Y Combinator [S16] Alumni. Circular Economy and Product Buyback Solutions for Brands and Retailers.
1 年thank you Joyce, insightful read, valid points!
Digital Asset Redemption, Confidently Confronting Cyber Crime. CRO
1 年Joyce J. Shen very insightful post. It clearly describes why anyone with a business, network, and data to protect needs a layered approach to cybersecurity.
Thanks for highlighting us, Joyce! Having overlapping layers of protection is absolutely pivotal, as is a commitment to protecting your network against the actual current threat landscape. Understanding and adapting your stack as well as using the most up-to-date cyber intelligence is how you do that. Great read!
Thanks for the call out Joyce. You are 100% correct that every company needs a proper, layered defense strategy to protect against cyber attacks and companies must start being more proactive in their defense strategy. Gone are the days where you can sit back and wait to see who is in your network and then remediate the threats afterwards.