It’s never too early to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions.
According to a SolarWinds survey earlier this year, while organizations may be more prepared today than in the past, the threat and consequences of cyber attack and security breaches loom as large as ever. You can read more about these findings in a previous guest post by my colleague and the former author of this column, Mav Turner, at http://bit.ly/2glHY9l.
But for evidence of this fact, you actually need look no further than the recent disclosure of Yahoo!’s 2014 data breach — the largest in history with 500 million accounts’ worth of personal user data stolen by attackers — and Dyn’s outages following a particularly inventive and large-scale DDoS attack in late October.