Defensive Cybersecurity Strategies

→ Keep the ball away from the attacker.

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I’ve wanted to write about this analogy for proactive versus reactive defensive security strategies for a while, and may add it to an upcoming cloud security presentation. The concept is a simple, but powerful mechanism to improve the state of your cloud security or cybersecurity in general. I wrote about it in a white paper called Balancing Security and Innovation With Event Driven Automation based on experiences and ideas that came from helping Capital One move production workloads to the cloud. I wanted to recap it in a fun way that is quick and easy to understand for those who don’t have the time to read a long nerdy white paper.

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