Can Security Red-Team Exercises Give You ROI On Your Cyber Security Expenses?
Many organizations have learned this lesson the hard way, with several attacks launched against large corporations, such as Sony Pictures, Marriott, Yahoo, Target, Alteryx, and Equifax. However, this shift also came from industry leaders, seeing where other companies fail and proactively handling these situations. Nowadays, we see company leadership asking questions like: How can we tell if we are a victims of a cyberattack? Will we know when it happens? Are we equipped enough to handle this incident in real-time? Have we wisely spent the millions from our security budget on these security tools? Can we trust them when the time comes? This maturity phase of the security industry is also the dawn of understanding that for an organization that wants to be ready for cyberattacks, there is no magic solution, no silver bullet. When companies start performing these security red team exercises, I usually see initial shock. At first, most organizations don't even know that anyone has infil