A Hacker needs only one loophole to hack any system.

Unfortunately, most companies lack the capabilities to be able to detect a coordinated attack head-on. This means usually when someone performs an incident response to start mitigating, the attacker is already well-established into the network, has several footholds, and then it becomes extremely hard and costly to be able to remove the attacker from the network especially when they are stealthy.

 

The Defensive side has a lot to secure with very minimal budgets. An attacker needs one way in from all these possibilities.

 

A number of companies are increasing their focus on securing their infrastructure using hardware and software Cyber Security Solutions, they do. But a lot of them, with a very high percent, do not test them from an Offensive Security Perspective, not only that, but hackers today do not even care about the hardware and they can aim at targeted spear-phishing attacks to gain credentials in plain text, or another example would be targeting vulnerable versions of sub-software such as plugins and inject arbitrary commands gaining access. So, it remains that the human element is the weakest link.

 

It’s not only knowing who your attackers are, but also who your attackers aren’t.

A lot of budgets can be spent on attacks that might never happen. So, one needs to look at the actual probability of a certain attack playing out.

Being able to distinguish between what is an incident and what isn’t in a timely fashion is the key difference between getting your entire company compromised and being able to stop an attack while it is happening.