The Five Elements of an Offensive Security Strategy
Throughout the course of the webinar, John Stahmann, Director, Solutions Engineering for Infrastructure Protection and Connor Johnson, Cybersecurity Account Executive for Infrastructure Protection review five basic elements of an offensive security strategy:
- Determining Maturity | It’s critical to know where you’re starting from so that you don’t set an unrealistic pace. Growing steadily ensures you have staff or strategies in place to appropriately react to their findings.
- Becoming Proactive | Shifting to a proactive mindset involves going from reacting to attacks to anticipating them. By actively seeking out vulnerabilities and weaknesses, you can prioritize and remediated them before malicious actors can exploit them.
- Adding Offensive Security Tools | The right tools can make offensive practices like vulnerability management, pen testing, and red teaming achievable and effective.
- Expanding and Layering Solutions | There’s no silver bullet for offensive security but stacking security solutions enables organizations to expand their reach and ensure they have complete coverage across all areas of their environment.
- Consolidating with Bundles | Layering solutions is necessary, but adding multiple tools can be pricy. Finding interoperable solutions from a single vendor can simplify efforts and reduce cost.
Growing Your Cyber Maturity
The first step is to determine where your organization is in terms of cyber maturity. Your level maturity determines the offensive security step you lean into, but ultimately, you should leverage all available offensive angles and grow into each new layer. While no infrastructure is impenetrable, the trick is to close gaps and add obstacles to make your organization challenging enough that it’s not worth an attacker’s efforts. To do this, every layer counts.
Check out the full article to learn how to assess your organization’s cyber maturity level and find the right offensive security tools:
