Council Post: The Importance Of Security Architecture And Attack Surface Analysis

Automation, cloud-based systems, internet-enabled devices, API-centric environments -- all of these things within software application development have paved the way for greater enterprise efficiency, productivity and innovation. But they have also opened up new avenues for cybercriminals to target private, sensitive information and compromise the systems that process it. Security pros and hackers tend to stay neck and neck in a race against each other. As new security innovations emerge, hackers crop up almost immediately, finding new ways to get around them. The only way for the good guys to pull ahead in the race is to shift their security and risk management approach from reactive to proactive.