When the pandemic hurled us into a cybersecurity crisis, there were some who held out hope that things would eventually return to normal. By now, we know those hopes were misguided, and the picture has only grown darker with time. According to the World Economic Forum, cybercrime now poses the greatest threat to businesses today. Populations of entire countries are at heightened risk, with Microsoft finding that nation states are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure. Today's digital threat actors have attained a degree of sophistication and savvy that has boggled cybersecurity veterans, who are struggling to keep up with their advanced and increasingly destructive methods.
Given this pressure to compete with cybercriminals, you’d expect organizations to make eager use of every cybersecurity tool at their disposal. And yet countless organizations continue to ignore one of the most effective and time-tested cybersecurity tools we have: the ethical hacker.