Introducing security posture

A security strategy must start from an inward look at a company’s current security position and secure score. A secure score is like a credit-rating score, but it looks at your positioning on the attack vulnerability scale of 1 to 10.

A security posture refers to an organization’s current threat-protection and threat-response capabilities. This ensures that an organization has the ability for systems, data, and identities to be recoverable and operational should an attack be successful.

It is critical to understand that we cannot prevent or eliminate threats and attacks, and the fact is that an attacker only has to be successful once, while you must protect everything all the time.

A security posture’s goal should be to reduce exposure to threats, shrinking attack surface areas and vectors while building resilience to attacks, as they cannot be eliminated.

A security strategy and security posture should use the guiding principles...