The threat landscape for cyber-security has continued to evolve, with a ransomware breach now happening every 11 seconds, said Zac Warren, Chief Security Advisor at Tanium, introducing a TEISS Breakfast Briefing at London’s Goring Hotel.
He told attendees at the briefing, all senior cyber-security specialists from a range of sectors, that despite a total worldwide spend of $180 billion per year on cyber, organisations are still struggling to secure their systems. Attendees shared their insights on how to address complexity in cyber-security.
Archaeologists, not architects
Complexity was a major problem for attendees. Of course, there are the external complexities of an ever-evolving threat landscape, and background challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. But more immediate is the internal complexity of IT systems.
One attendee pointed out that the systems his team must secure cover a spectrum that extends from legacy systems at one end to brand-new projects spun up a few hours ago by DevOps. Securing everything is a challenge because organisations typically do not have complete visibility of their IT estate. In the case of some systems,…
