Gartner Report: How to respond to the threat landscape

Vulnerabilities and the exploitation of them are a driving force of the threat landscape. With a complete understanding of the attack surface, security and risk leaders can make better security decisions faster to avoid incidents.

According to Gartner: “To address the mass of threats in a reasonable way, Security and Risk Management (SRM) leaders need to take a drastic approach to threat prioritization.”

Read key recommendations from Gartner analysts*

• "Evaluate the macro trends and the microtrends associated with them to derive a high-level picture of how threats change."
• "Use a continuous and adaptive risk and trust assessment strategic mindset to enable prediction and prevention, where feasible, and deploy detect and respond capabilities to adjust to changing threats."
• "Organizations must continuously engage with multiple stakeholders to address unknown attack services, such as line of business owners for cyber-physical systems."

Assessing widespread security threat trends, such as ransomware and phishing, requires a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment strategic approach. SRM leaders must confront the threat landscape based on a continuous assessment of threat and business evolutions.*

* Gartner: How to respond to the threat landscape, John Watts, June 2020.

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