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Curtis Simpson , CISO at Armis , draws insights from the past year ’ s cybersecurity challenges and discusses how they can inform a proactive strategy for

2024 and beyond .

Cybersecurity has become influenced by technological advancements , societal shifts and bad actors who continuously adapt and evolve in sophistication to exploit unmitigated known and unknown vulnerabilities . It ’ s a digital battleground that demands constant vigilance .

Over the past year , organisations have faced unprecedented cyber-risks and threats , navigating blind spots in their environments and contending with their growing attack surface . There are around 45,000 assets connected on average to a UK organisations ’ network on a given business day and each one has the potential to pose a significant risk .

Arguably , what ’ s even more worrying is that over a third of IT and security decision-makers lack complete visibility over company-owned assets connected to the business environment and a further 42 % reported a lack of control and management over these assets .

This paints a stark picture of the reality faced by security teams . In fact , the role of a CISO in this cyber battleground has never been more crucial . After all , you can ’ t stop and manage threats you can ’ t see .

If any CISO is to turn the tide in this fight , it starts with a simple approach . This starts with taking stock

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