Shifting Gears into Proactive Security

Webster’s dictionary defines being proactive as “acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes”. From a security perspective this means taking the initiative to protect the organization before it’s too late. The future security problems are the loss of information and system outages due to being compromised or negligence.

So the questions to be asked are:

• Why is it important to take a proactive security approach?
• What are the challenges that we face in taking this stance? 
• How do we become proactive security professionals?

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