centre of attention
DEFENDING
THE UNDEFENDABLE
Rick Orloff of Code42 explains how to ensure your security strategy adds value.
A
n increase in the
number of high profile
data breaches over the
last year would suggest
heightened demand
for mitigation strategies. And attacks
are not limited to a single type of
organisation. You only have to look at
the media headlines around breaches
in companies such as VTech, Ashley
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Madison and Slack to realise that
organisations of all shapes and sizes
are still targets for top tier hackers.
However, and perhaps surprisingly,
a feeling that suffering a breach
at some stage is simply inevitable
could lead to a sense of apathy
amongst decision makers. The
C-Suite likes to make decisions
based on mathematical probabilities,
and so do I. If the analysis suggests
that even the best security strategy
cannot prevent data loss, making the
business case to implement one in the
fir