It is time to see ourselves from the vantage point of our enemy. There may be a number of reasons someone may want to hack into our systems. Executive teams and leadership need a different view of the world.  What can we do?

1. Understand your major risks and how adversaries aim to exploit them
2. Take inventory of your assets and monitor them continuously
3. Make security a part of your mission
4. Be active, not passive, in hunting adversaries on your network and removing them

We can all prevent a disaster if we are diligent in taking responsibility for our own security.

Companies need to take a new approach. They can do so by looking at themselves through the eyes of their attackers. In the military this is called turning the map around. The point is to get inside the mind of the enemy, and to see the situation as they do, in order to anticipate and prepare for what’s to come.

Unfortunately, this mindset is still too rare. Despite spending billions of dollars every year on the latest security products and hiring the best security engineers and analysts, companies are more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. Two trends account for this: the rapid convergence of enterprise IT architectures, and the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated adversaries.

via See Your Company Through the Eyes of a Hacker – HBR.

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