How long will it take to be secure? Unfortunately, it’s not a simple answer. Watch our video below as Aaron and Michael speak on the journey of security.
No matter what you do or where you start, it’s important to stay consistent. You wouldn’t buy an alarm system and not set it. Security operates the same way. Every day, you add a little bit here and there to build up your protections.
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Video Transcript
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:09 Security Is Like Fitness
0:35 Security Journey
0:43 Part II Of How Long It Takes To Be Secure
0:55 Security Is A Journey
1:03 Do What You Can Today
1:47 Make Daily Progress
2:10 Effort In The Security Journey
How long will it take to be secure?
0:09 Security Is Like Fitness
I often make analogies and draw comparisons of security with fitness. Being secure is a lifestyle choice. It’s an active thing that you do on an ongoing basis. It’s not a single individual milestone that’s done at a certain date, right? The ongoing practice doesn’t stop. You add, you fine-tune, you adjust as needed.
0:35 Security Journey
There are of course milestones that get achieved on specific dates when we talk about a security journey, but really it is an ongoing commitment that is something you do forever.
0:43 Part II Of How Long It Takes To Be Secure
How long will it take to be secure?
Nearly twenty years ago when Mike and I were working in the trenches building our first security program. Michael told me something that sticks with me to this day.
0:55 Security Is A Journey
Security is a journey, not a destination. So the unfortunate answer is is that there’s no timeline on it.
1:03 Do What You Can Today
There is no end. It is a journey. Do what you can today. Continue to reassess and re-evaluate our business landscape changes, our technology landscape changes, and you need to be able to adapt to that over time.
The good news is it’s typically not drastic measures that you’re going to have to implement year over year or at different turning points in this technology evolution. Typically, if you start doing the right things today, you simply build on those over time and you need to create a culture of that. You need to create a culture of security so that you’re able to adapt to these changes and you’re able to sustain your business as these changes occur in this business and technology landscape.
1:47 Make Daily Progress
And while security is a journey, you can definitely make progress every day, every week, every month. It’s not as if you never see the gains of your efforts, right? If you were literally to roll out a tool today that you didn’t have yesterday or introduce a capability to your company that wasn’t there last week, that’s progress, that’s improvement.
2:10 Effort In The Security Journey
So it certainly doesn’t mean that that’s your final state, but it does mean that every bit of effort you apply enhances your overall security of your organization, of your team, of your data, of your systems and so on.
