Throughout the pandemic, cyber adversaries have been honing their skills, developing an array of new techniques to penetrate networks and steal sensitive data. Organizations are struggling to keep up with the increasing number and sophistication of attacks, with the average cost of a data breach increasing by $1.07 million in 2021.
As a result, security teams are overwhelmed by alerts, false positives and negatives, and are forced to respond to security incidents as they occur, rather than securing the environment beforehand. Without proactive cybersecurity efforts, organizations will struggle to carry out an effective incident response. Read ahead to learn what proactive security practices look like for organizations of all sizes.