This year has proven to be one of the most challenging in history for the cybersecurity industry and business leaders across every sector. We’ve seen a record number of ransomware attacks, crippled critical industries, and economic impact affecting the lives of nearly everyone. The ripple effects are being felt everywhere, and massive changes are on the horizon.

Disruption can be uncomfortable and disorienting. Almost simultaneously, it wreaks havoc and unearths harmony. Within this dichotomy - agility will thrive, and complacency cannot survive.

Digital Protection is a lifecycle, constantly evolving with the changing and rapidly expanding attack surface of modern business operations. Processes are digitizing and data is being amassed at a pace that is exponentially increasing the challenge of maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the information required to conduct business.

What value do you place on the culture of your organization? How would you characterize great culture? By definition, culture is cultivated behavior; the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience - socially expressed. So, if we factor in the lengthy absence of social environments, it’s not surprising to find profound cultural decay beginning to take hold in many organizations.

Accelerated digitization has afforded nearly all organizations a newfound level of connectivity and agility, evident in work environments across the globe transforming from large corporate offices to working from anywhere. Businesses have become the new smart homes, technology woven throughout - and it happened at a blistering pace.

We are at the halfway mark for the year, and the only true constant in 2021 is the fact that organizations, across all industries, are making headlines due to their failure to prioritize cybersecurity.

Resilience was given a global stage as the Colonial Pipeline attack unfolded last month. The security of our Nation’s infrastructure was put on full display on May 7th – while the brazen act has both its defenders and our lawmakers scrambling, our nation-state adversaries are receiving an invaluable peek behind the curtain. While new pipeline breach notification requirements have been issued, we are likely years away from seeing any tangible improvement in the overall security of our vast infrastructure.

Perhaps no better recent example of how threat actors are precisely focusing on the weakest supply chain links than that of hackers stealing confidential Apple product schematics from a third-party supplier, then demanding $50 million not to publicly release them.

Welcome to the first issue of Target Lock! 2020 was a year of complete and total transformation of “business as usual” for everyone around the world – and that has continued into 2021. As workforces scrambled through forced and accelerated digital transformations, security teams found themselves in the precarious position of providing digital protection to moving targets, outside the safeguards of their office networks, fatigued and distracted by information overload.