Organizations are becoming increasingly digital in their operations, products and services offerings, as well as with their business methods. This means they are introducing more technology into their environment. At the same time, they have shrunk their IT shops – in particular, their infosec teams – and have less visibility into their environment and operations. While they are trying to do more with fewer staff, they are also falling behind in terms of tracking potential security alerts and understanding how attackers enter their networks. Unfortunately, threats are more complex as criminals use a variety of paths such as web, email, mobile, cloud, and native Windows exploits to insert malware and steal a company’s data and funds.

In this post for RSA’s blog, I talk about how organizations have to become better at managing their digital risk through using more advanced security and information event management systems and adaptive authentication tools. Both of these use more continuous detection mechanisms to monitor network and user behaviors.