As McAfee Chief Executive Officer Chris Young said in his 2019 MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit keynote address, time is the most valuable resource that we all share. But time isn’t always on our side – especially when it comes to cybersecurity.
“Time is the one constant that we cannot change. It’s the one constraint that we cannot ignore. Every second counts,” Young said. “… Our adversaries are using time to their advantage. It’s the single greatest weapon they have. It’s taken over the language of our industry. Persistence. Dwell time. Used to describe the time the work that our adversaries do as they run up the clock until they try to exfiltrate our most sensitive information. Versus ransomware, which applies time pressure to run down the clock. If you don’t pay the ransom you’ll lose your data forever. Zero-day attacks. Mean time to detect. Mean time to respond. These are just a few of the many, many examples of the way time is woven into the fabric of our industry.”
Time is a major challenge for organizations attempting to keep pace with cyber threats that are rapidly increasing in volume and complexity. Elevated efficiency is cybersecurity’s counterpunch against agile and elusive adversaries weaponizing time. Organizations that constantly find themselves in reactive mode struggle to maintain staff efficiency—but time and resources can be saved by using improved visibility and prioritization to get ahead of the threat curve.
The findings of an ESG paper commissioned by McAfee concurred: “Organizations want more visibility into cyber-risks so they can tailor and prioritize their threat response and risk remediation actions in alignment with threats that may hit them,” said Jon Oltsik, ES ..
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