Security Basics Aren't So Basic - They're Hard
CIODIVE, Monday, August 21,2023
Lax security controls cause heavy damages, and security experts warn unmet basic requirements lead, time and again, to data breaches.
The basics of cybersecurity, it turns out, aren't so basic.
Fundamental defenses - identity and access management, MFA, memory-safe languages, patching and vulnerability management - are lacking or nonexistent across the economy, according to cybersecurity experts.
'It is the simple stuff,' Arctic Wolf CISO Adam Marre said during an interview at Black Hat. 'Year after year these data breach reports come out, year after year it's the same thing as most attacks happen because you're not patching your systems and you're not taking care of your credentials.'