Cybersecurity is the never ending cost center and can be challenging to show ROI. In business terms, it’s about risk. Risk is the easiest way to describe cybersecurity to executives.
If you forgo implementing MFA, the risk of account takeovers is high. Even still, cybersecurity is hard to sell, UNTIL, a cyber incident happens that wakes everyone up. This is what we call, reactive cybersecurity. We react to attackers attacking our network, we react to suspicious emails, we react to everything. Attempting to be proactive is hard with the cybersecurity technology in the state it is currently. We’ve evolved from systems with little-to-no security, to having the internet and security is a requirement.
Sure, there are plenty of tools that you can amalgamate that can help you react better/faster, but how can you really be proactive now days?
The truth is, you can’t without the right level of buy-in from c-level executives and the budget to suit. Zero trust is a great model, but taking a company from 100 to Zero-trust is almost impossible. There are tools out there like ThreatLocker and CyberArk that can help you get closer to zero-trust, but can you implement it without massive disruptions?