Summary

At some point, every security leader gets asked a version of the same question: Are we good? It tends to arrive when something is at stake and the person asking needs to know they can rely on the answer. I learned what that question really means at a firm I was with earlier in my career. We had received intelligence that threat actors were preparing to go after financial services firms over the holidays, counting on skeleton staffing and slower response times.

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