Security News > 2022 > May > An offensive mindset is crucial for effective cyber defense

An offensive mindset is key to ensuring the best cyber defense.

To ensure success, there are three main components for organizations to consider when developing a defensive strategy based on an offensive cyber model: re-envisioning recruitment, thinking like a hacker, and promoting offensive training in tangent with defensive training.

Threat intelligence is a key component to developing an offensive mindset.

Those who operate in cybersecurity roles for the private sector or critical infrastructure companies are performing cyber defense, but there's the notion of active defense - more proactively identifying and containing threats before they have a chance to breach systems.

Giving employees offensive cyber training in a setting where they have permission to try to break in can be liberating and help them develop the instincts and know-how they need to be the best possible cyber defenders.

An offensive mindset is crucial to defend organizations fully against attacks on the enterprise and national level.

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