TOP IMAGE: His Majesty’s Fort Roughs, a massive defensive structure built and deployed rapidly in 1942 to protect the Thames estuary from modern attacks: magnetic sea mines and the ominous, unstoppable Blitz. It still stands, but threats have evolved. It serves no defensive purpose.
Here’s the brutal truth: It doesn’t matter how much your organization spends on the latest cybersecurity hardware, software, training, and staff or whether it has segregated its most essential systems from the rest. If your mission-critical systems are digital and connected in some form or fashion to the internet (even if you think they aren’t, it’s highly likely they are), they can never be made fully safe. Period.