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Expect The Unexpected

Symantec, July 2,2025

In times of uncertainty, your best defense is to lock down your fundamentals

The one-year anniversary of the global IT outage reminds us that unexpected disruptions demand constant preparedness.

Over-reliance on a single vendor, ('tech monoculture'), should be viewed as a form of vulnerability in critical infrastructure.

The growing fragility of the lower tiers of the supply chain exposes otherwise well-defended organizations at the top to targeted cyberattacks with cascading effects.

Building resilience now hinges on proven fundamentals: endpoint security, data protection, network security and detection and response, supported by critical intelligence and trusted partners.

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