Page 18 - Cyber Defense eMagazine Special RSA Conference Annual Edition for 2022

Security For Want of a Nail

Don’t Overlook Lifecycle and Data Management Details

By Gregory Hoffer, CEO, Coviant Software

Threat actors are a relentless bunch. They continue to evolve their tools and practices to try and stay one
step ahead of the influx of sophisticated countermeasures designed to detect and fend off their attacks;
and they have a great incentive to be good at what they do. By some estimates, cybercrime as an industry
grosses more than $600 billion annually. That’s a lot of money, and a lot of motivation.

But for all the attention paid to high-skill threat actors and the technologies built to thwart them, there are
a lot of hackers that are content with looking for targets of opportunity and who would prefer taking
advantage of more common weaknesses in plying their trade. They know that, even the largest
organizations with the biggest cybersecurity budgets can overlook simple things that make it possible for
them to breach the wall, get inside, and do their thing.

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