Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

It was the worst-case scenario for Uber, the popular ride-sharing app, when the company suffered a major data breach in early September. While the extent of the damage, and the data potentially stolen, is still being uncovered, the attack — and the methods used to execute it — can be examined and used to teach other organizations what (and what not) to do.

In May 2021 President Joe Biden issued out Executive Order 14028. The order focused on “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” to support and protect the nation’s critical infrastructure and Federal Government networks. This directly relates to the trustworthiness and transparency in ALL digital infrastructure – IT, OT, IoT, IIoT.

Risk is one of those standard terms within cybersecurity that, when asked to define, many struggle to explain what risk is and how it applies to cybersecurity. To start, we need to understand risk as it applies to security. Risk, like mathematics, is an artificial construct that humans use to understand and describe their environment.