Attempts to justify the cost of an external team to conduct a rigorous assessment often fall on deaf managerial ears. Leadership’s desired strategic vision and the operational actuality of their production environments are often two very different things.īudgetary constraints are inarguably one of the greatest obstacles to sufficient assessments of the IT infrastructures organizations rely on to support their business. Achieving minimum standards of compliance has created a “good enough security” culture that leaves organizations exposed to risks that fall well outside what they are prepared to deal with. When it comes to regulatory compliance, some organizations do not get to choose whether or not they can hire a third-party to test their infrastructure. The activities involved to ensure that our security policy is aligned with pragmatic, emerging threats can be accomplished by either internal security departments or by third-party teams. Staying one step ahead of threat actors by assessing the state of network security is definitely not a chore for the faint of heart. Pricing Out Cybersecurity: The Cost of Assurance Dan Williams wrote this amazing piece on Network Security Assurance in CyberDefense Weekly.
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