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“ Visibility and observability should be among the first areas CISOs invest in.”
Security teams need visibility not only across networks and applications but also identities, cloud platforms, third-party dependencies and business-critical services.
“ They also need the business context to understand what matters most and where an issue could have the greatest impact.”
Chris Cochran believes comprehensive asset management remains one of cybersecurity’ s most important disciplines.
“ You cannot protect what you don’ t know you have.”
Maintaining accurate inventories of hardware, software, data and third-party relationships provides the foundation for understanding an organisation’ s attack surface.
Benaim echoed that point, arguing that many organisations still struggle with surprisingly basic security practices.
“ Simple things like knowing what assets they have, patching known vulnerabilities in time, enforcing basic access controls.”
Without those foundations, she warned, more advanced technologies provide little benefit.
Building resilience into the architecture
While visibility provides understanding, several contributors argued that resilience ultimately depends on designing infrastructure capable of containing attacks when preventative controls fail.
Shane Read, CISO at Goldilock Secure, believes organisations should look beyond software controls alone.
“ The next generation of cyber-resilience will be measured by how effectively organisations continue operating when attacks inevitably occur.”
As AI accelerates the speed of compromise, resilience must increasingly be engineered into infrastructure through multiple layers of protection.
Read believes Deep segmentation should become a strategic priority.
“ By extending security beyond software-defined controls and enforcing boundaries at the infrastructure layer, organisations gain deterministic control over critical connectivity.”
Even if privileged credentials or management platforms are compromised, those physical boundaries continue limiting attacker movement.
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