Anand Naik, co-founder and CEO at Sequretek, explains why cybersecurity needs to shift its focus to continuous risk management. This article originally appeared in Insight Jam, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI.
Imagine locking every door in your house before leaving, double-checking the deadbolts, securing the garage, and arming the alarm system. You feel confident that everything’s safe. But what if, while you were focused on those doors, you forgot the windows were left wide open?
That’s essentially what happens when cybersecurity is reduced to a checklist for compliance. The doors, firewalls, encryption protocols, and strong password policies may be locked tight. But the windows, the vulnerabilities that evolve daily, the unpredictable human errors, and the sophisticated new malware are often left unguarded. Compliance tells you everything was secure during the last audit, but it doesn’t guarantee it still is.
In today’s fast-changing digital world, relying solely on compliance is like trusting last week’s weather report to decide if you need an umbrella today. The threat landscape changes too quickly, and attackers are no longer…
