Cybersecurity professionals are always prepared to adapt. Our function is centered around potential risk and the ability to instantly respond to new threats and events that could put our organizations and their people in harm's way. An enormous amount of preparation and planning always needs to be in place — with a clear process and playbook to execute or a fundamental capability to fall back on in any given scenario.
But in March 2020, the world faced a scenario beyond the scope of anything we'd seen before. Companies were forced to move from reasonably well-defined enterprise infrastructures inside office buildings to a wide range of individual remote users signing in from countless access points across the world. From a cybersecurity perspective, the technology was already in place; remote employees have existed for years, as have the cybersecurity measures to keep them protected. The challenge was delivering this protection at unprecedented scale and speed while still maintaining cybersecurity best practices.
One year into the pandemic, there are many lessons we have learned. Here are the top three that made the greatest impact on the new normal of cybersecurity:
1. In a Crisis, Cyber Resilience Is an Essential Business Enabler The pandemic ignited an explosion of digital transformation. Instant pivots to remote operations meant pushing forward with technology investments in cloud, connectivity, automation, and innovation that may have taken months or years to implement in normal times. As the world began relying on these new digital capabilities, new risks and challenges were introduced. Or ..
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