The worst thing that organizations can do is take a hard stance with their cybersecurity efforts. The digital threat landscape is constantly evolving. If organizations settle into a viewpoint, they could elevate one source of risk into something unrealistic—all while missing other digital threats.
This reflects just how much assumptions drive cybersecurity-related decisions. Forbes put it this way: “Risk assessment, budgetary needs and priorities are the outcome of hypothetical debates and are subject to internal pressures and politics. Both security professionals and business executives continuously seek solutions or methodologies that will put a $ sign next to their investment, as well as risk.”
Subsequently, it’s not a surprise that there are some open questions in cybersecurity around where organizations can take their strategies in the next few years. Here’s a recap of five open questions that are currently shaping the cybersecurity space and how we are seeing these addressed in the industry.
1. Do Passwords Do More Harm than Good?
Technology firms like Microsoft are abandoning the password for three reasons. First, they’re looking to Single Sign-On (SSO) and other technologies that don’t hamper their workers’ experience and productivity as much as traditional password-based identity protection. Second, passwordless authentication makes it easier for organizations to defend their authorized accounts against brute-forcing, credential stuffing and other attack attempts that rely on guessing weak passwords. Third, organizations are choosing to embrace
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