Enterprise network perimeters have been disappearing: at first slowly, and then suddenly, all at once and at knifepoint. If this were a game of Clue, I’d accuse the Ransomware Actor, on the Edge Device, with the Zero-Day.
Microsoft’s new advice for securing Active Directory does customers a disservice by focusing on the wrong things. Tomorrow’s “Zero Trust” and Azure roadmaps won’t stop today’s ransomware epidemic. Enterprises need to protect the Active Directory they’ve already got.
Drift metrics can help measure how well-managed an enterprise’s technology assets are. CISOs can mine data contained in mainstream cloud configuration tools to understand conformance or divergence from expected states.
The data revolution sweeping over IT has come to cybersecurity. CISOs can learn from their success disasters, instrument their controls, and write key risk indicators (KRIs) that resonate with their audiences.
