Three Ways to Stay Ahead of Attackers

Gaurav Banga, the CEO and Founder of Balbix, outlines three ways companies can stay ahead of attackers, secure their cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and more. This article originally appeared in Insight Jam, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI.

This year, the cybersecurity industry has been marked by increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and growing vulnerabilities. Just this past month, a zero-day vulnerability in Rackspace’s ScienceLogic SL1 platform led to a data breach compromising customer data through its internal performance monitoring system. Earlier in the year, Ivanti dealt with two zero-day exploits in its Connect Secure VPN, affecting thousands from small businesses to government agencies, with delayed patches leaving systems exposed for three weeks—demonstrating just how critical rapid response is amid a surge in threat actor sophistication.

As new and critical vulnerabilities emerge daily, the ScienceLogic SL1 breach and Connect Secure VPN attack remain stark reminders for security teams that as tool sprawl continues, it is nearly impossible to have complete visibility into your attack surface at all times. As a result,…