SAN FRANCISO – The headlines of online breaches at Canada’s Treasury Board, Ashley Madison, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Target, Sony and others give the impression that organizations around the world are sieves.
It doesn’t help that infosec pros know if an adversary is determined to break into a company they will.
But according to an expert at the SANS Institute all those headlines – and regular pessimistic surveys from vendors – have created the myth that no one can be kept out. But they also obscure a truth: cyber security works for a lot of organizations. If they can’t completely keep the enemy out, they are at least slashing time to detect, which means faster remediation – and lower costs for the enterprise.
John Pescatore, the non-profit security training organization’s director of emerging security, is on a one-man campaign to prove it. He’s created a site called What Works to collect stories of cyber successes.
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