Today's cyber environment is one of rapid and constant change. Stepping up in technological savvy, threat actors are using an arsenal of new and sophisticated techniques that make recognizing their attacks harder than ever. With several thousand products and a rapidly changing landscape of ever-increasing threats and risks, cybersecurity seems as elusive, and probably as impossible, as the “happiness problem.”
Cyberattackers have an edge because they only have to succeed once where defenders need to succeed every time. On top of that, security is laborious. Organizations are typically only able to test some of their assets, some of the time, whereas hackers are attacking all assets, all of the time.