Defenders Advantage
Cyber adversaries continue to relentlessly target organizations with increas- ingly sophisticated and impactful attacks. These highly motivated, well financed, and coordinated attackers have a single focus: exploiting insecurities in digital systems for their own gains. Cyber attackers are often larger in numbers and have greater access to resources than many of the individual organizations they target. Ransomware attacks continue to be on the rise, exploiting organizations for their sensitive information resulting in significant operational, financial, and reputational damage. Newly discovered, unreported vulnerabilities (zero-days), continue to be a valuable method for cyber attackers to leverage, as these allow compromise of organizations with no advanced notice. Cyber attacks are often conducted by multiple adversary groups with different specialties working together to execute attacks. In many cases, defending enterprise systems can feel like an insurmountable task.