Avoiding the Urgency Trap of Modern Cybersecurity

ENGLISH SESSION

With an ever-increasing number of threats, cybersecurity teams have become focused on responsiveness. We all want to patch or protect against the latest threat - but has this urgency come at the expense of long term defense? In this presentation, the speaker will consider why the things that are put off till tomorrow to focus on the most recent attack could come back to roost in a year or two. He will use the current industry mindset around quantum safe cryptography, supply chain vulnerabilities and attack surface visibility to illustrate why short-term fixes must be balanced with long term planning. Finally, he will share three actions that attendees can take now to put their teams back on the path towards a more balanced approach.
These include:

• Creating dashboards or scorecards that record progress on longer term initiatives
• Building a reward-system around gaining headway on those initiatives
• Developing goals & tracking milestones on important (but not imminent) cybersecurity concerns