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Combatting unknown unknowns – taking an intelligence-led approach to visibility
Josh Neame , CTO at BlueFort Security , shares the challenges faced by CISOs and highlights the need to move to intelligence-led visibility , ensuring the identification of the most dangerous threats facing a business .
When he was US Secretary of State for Defence , Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech which contained one of the most well-remembered and often quoted phrases from the recent past : “ We know there are known unknowns ; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know . But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don ' t know we don ' t know . And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries , it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones .”
A bit of a tongue-twister , but the essence of what Rumsfeld said can be applied to all walks of life . When it comes to cybersecurity IT landscapes are complex , often untamed and unpredictable . There are many known unknowns and there are even more unknown unknowns .
In an environment where attack surfaces increase as fast as the workforce disperses and cybercriminals become sophisticated in their www . intelligentcxo . com
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