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ANALYSIS
Whether the driver is ransomware, NIS2, DORA, or protecting the business’ s bottom line, your goal today must be maintaining operational resilience. Prevention is important( and ideal), but security leaders are seeing smaller and smaller gains when attempting to improve prevention. So, the priority must be to build out controls that protect the most critical systems and reduce the blast radius of the inevitable attack.
2. Assess your current risk posture
You can’ t limit the impact of attacks if you don’ t understand your current risk posture. Start by identifying your most significant threats and determine which assets are most vulnerable to attack. How might threat actors exploit vulnerabilities? How prepared are you to respond?
Use frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to help measure and mature capabilities across key functional areas. Additionally, technologies based on AI security graphs are essential for providing a real-time, richly detailed view of all resources, their dependencies, and relationships.
AI security graphs allow you to map adversary behaviour and identify attacker connections and patterns, so you can anticipate risks that need to be addressed and gaps that are already being exploited. This supports the shift from reactive to proactive by prioritising what matters most, empowering you to make faster, more informed decisions.
3. Align security spend with risk
Once you know your risks, consider whether current cybersecurity investments focus on the right areas. Security spending is set to hit $ 212 billion in 2025, but breach costs are also rising, averaging
62 % of UK organisations have had to shut down operations following a ransomware attack, according to Ponemon.
Raghu Nandakumara, Head of Industry Solutions at Illumio
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