Governments around the world have made clear that their patience has worn thin with data breaches. More severe consequences are coming.
Europe led the way with GDPR. The U.S. federal government has taken significant steps to enhance cybersecurity through accountability. The Biden administration launched a zero-trust architecture (ZTA) strategy to improve the cybersecurity of government agencies. Elsewhere, the administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy puts the responsibility for software security on developers. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even told corporate directors they are responsible for cybersecurity policies, procedures, and incident response.
All this to say that the status quo has not worked. CISOs are in the hot seat, and change will come. What will this new era of proactive security look like? It will have these three characteristics:
- Good security posture. The previous generation of security products blocked users and activities. It focused on prevention. With a distributed workforce, that’s no longer acceptable from a user-experience perspective. A new generation of security products now offers more subtle, changing permissions, and access….
