Predictable attacks, unpredictable defenses: why observability is the real security gap
Most cyberattacks don't succeed because attackers are clever or innovative.
The vast majority are highly predictable, following the same well-worn paths of least resistance through their victims’ environments.
What remains unpredictable is not attacker behavior, but organizational defense.
VP of Industry Strategy at Illumio.
Security strategies are often undermined by misconfigurations, excessive privileges, exposed services, and unmonitored connections between systems.
When enterprises are operating with unreliable defenses built on incomplete maps, even the most predictable attack comes as a surprise.
Why defenders are stuck with security maps they can’t read
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that threat actors often have a clearer picture of how systems connect than most security teams do.
Across hybrid and cloud computingenvironments, most organizations lack full visibility into how their applications, identities, devices, and workloads communicate. They can identify what exists but can't reliably map how it all connects. That means they also...
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