The Shift Left Of Boom: Making Cyberthreat Prevention Practical Again
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
The old saying 'prevention is better than cure' has lost value in today's cybersecurity industry. Instead, security teams are advised to assume that the business has been breached and focus on threat detection, investigation, response and recovery.
However, during cyber incident postmortems, it is not uncommon to find that the business owned the tool that would have protected it against the breach. The problem arose because it wasn't correctly configured before the incident happened, and no one knew this - if they did, they didn't have the time or resources to fix it.
We often say that hindsight has 20:20 vision, and playing a blame game after a breach is morale-destroying. What we need to do is flip the script and turn hindsight into foresight to make cyberthreat prevention practical again. As an industry, we need to shift security left of boom and help businesses optimize the investments they have already made. That's easy enough to say, but harder to change in reality, especially if there is a lack of understanding around the current environment.