Verify it, don’t assume it: why untested security controls are making life easy for attackers

This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, “Don’t Make It Easy for Them”, is usually read as advice for individuals. Cynthia Overby, director of strategic security solutions, ZCOE, at Rocket Software , says it should be read just as closely in the boardroom. “As Cybersecurity Awareness Month commences, the theme, ‘Don’t make it easy for them’ must apply to organizations just as much as individuals,” she says.