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After reading through some security blogs and strategy papers, I saw what appeared to be an underlying theme across the narratives I’d read: Security tolerates failure.
We should take steps that will help us stop failing and stop tolerating anything less than victory. There is only one thing to do: raise the level of expectations.
Here is the hard part — organizations still have to actually do it. There is no AI that will help here:
If companies have a user policy that says “we monitor your activities and we are watching what you do on our network,” they must enforce it. Don’t accept smart devices into networks without having a plan in place to track and patch that item. Make the C-Level team realize that security is not just a part of the business: It’s critical to its success in today’s world. Don’t take a back seat. Analyze and understand the nuances, technical needs, and implications of any technology your team is considering using. Don’t just move forward with a POC and think it’s all going to work out (it won’t).
That goes for the good and the bad. The choice of whether the results lean more toward the positive or negative are up to us and how much failure we are willing to stomach before we flip the script and move decisively away from tolerance.
By Chase Cunningham, principal analyst at Forrester
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