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The Cyber Risk Eruption you missed.

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Introduction There is a major shift in attackers' capabilities, and you need to know about it. An underestimated threat puts your company or your customers at risk. There are currently three major changes that will make it important to fundamentally adjust your risk assessment. The Eruption If an attacker has a zero-day (0-day) exploit for a previously unknown remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, then many security measures are useless. A 0-day is the laser sword when it comes to cutting butter. In the pre-2000s, writing 0-day exploits was reserved for only a few exceptional talents in the world. Often, these talents were found in countries that offered the necessary level of education and access to computers and network technologies. In the years that followed, the knowledge spread more and more; zero-days could be bought on gray markets by criminals, government agencies, or companies (also see This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends ). Around the same time, companies ...
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This is how every organization works. - The ‘Business Problem Handling Life-Cycle’ Model

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Photo by Vladimir Oprisko on Unsplash Introduction Every organization, regardless of its size or purpose, is fundamentally a problem-solving machine. Working in an organization can sometimes feel confusing, especially when you are a new employee. What people are important? How is the daily work organized? I provide you with a simple model — the Business Problem Handling Life-Cycle model — that helps you to get answers quickly and improve the efficiency of your organization and yourself . I will show you a new view on organizations, how they function, how decisions are made, and the reason we will always have work. The model can be applied to any level within an organization, whether it is a team, a department with several teams, or an organization as a whole. It is like a fractal in mathematics, or a snowflake, but at the process level. When you zoom from a macro-perspective to a micro-perspective, you see the same business problem handling life-cycle model. Ok, let...
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