In June 2017, one of the mid-sized organizations was breached and the entire database was downloaded by the hackers. The irony was that the organization didn't even know anything until the hacker was selling the database details on the dark web after a few months.
Even though they had implemented decent security controls, the thing that was lacking was a continuous security monitoring. The lack of continuous security monitoring is one of the most common things that you might find in a startup or mid-sized organization.
This is one of the reasons why continuous security monitoring needs to become an integral part of the modern security architectures.
Continuous security monitoring gives us the ability to trace what exactly is happening within the environment in a timely manner, as timely detection is important to implement prevention.
Having...
