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FEATURE: RETHINKING SECURITY
Why your
employees might
be you r biggest
cyber-risk
Given the complexity of the
modern threat landscape,
organisations and enterprises
need to re-think their
cybersecurity strategies.
Adenike Cosgrove, Cybersecurity
Strategy, International,
Proofpoint, talks to Intelligent
CIO about why adopting a
people-centric approach
is critical to reducing an
organisation’s attack surface.
www.intelligentcio.com
Today’s attacks target people, not infrastructure
Organisations are spending more than ever on cybersecurity and
getting less value from it. Attacks keep getting through. Sensitive
information keeps falling into the wrong hands. And data breaches
keep making headlines.
It’s time for a fundamental rethink. Traditional cybersecurity
models were built for an earlier era – when the prevailing security
model was to lock down the perimeter and deal with threats after
they got through. The approach barely worked then; it’s hopelessly
broken now.
That’s because people, not technology, are attackers’ biggest target
– and your biggest risk. This change in the threat landscape requires a
fresh mindset and new strategy, one that focuses on protecting people
rather than the old perimeter.
INTELLIGENTCIO
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