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WELCOME TO ISSUE 7 OF NEW PERIMETERS – HUMAN-CENTRIC CYBERSECURITY

RYAN KALEMBER

Chief Strategy Officer, Proofpoint

Over the last year, as large-scale data breaches continued to dominate headlines, advancements in generative AI morphed into a double-edged sword for both adversaries and defenders. During that time, threat actors adapted their craft with blinding speed.

Against this challenging backdrop for organizations, one constant remains – humans and their identities are the most targeted links in the attack chain.

A major breach caused by human error – the story as old as cybersecurity itself

The employee who uploaded thousands of files, including ‘scores’ of confidential documents, to a personal Google Drive account.

Malicious actors will stop at nothing for their ill-gotten gains, including attacking and disrupting healthcare institutions, educational systems, critical infrastructure and more.

These risks lie at the intersection of human behavior, rapidly changing digital collaboration, and sprawling data. They’re not just the most consequential – they’re the hardest to solve for.

Protecting the human layer should be top of mind

Our mission is to act as the strategic partner of choice for organizations everywhere to protect people and defend data. Solving these risks means understanding human risk by shedding light on who is attacked, whose behavior is risky, whose compromised account holds the keys to the kingdom and who puts data at risk.

Gartner’s Leadership Vision for 2024: Security and Risk Management report identified “pivot to a human-centric cybersecurity strategy” as one of only three strategic imperatives for security and risk management leaders⁽¹⁾. At Proofpoint, we provide comprehensive human-centric security to protect people and defend data that your organization can build on.

In this issue...

We’ll explore how to build a comprehensive human-centric cybersecurity strategy that mitigates all four dimensions of human cybersecurity risk: threat risk, identity risk, impersonation risk and data loss risk.

Move past the hype to real examples of the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) & GenAI to help you to streamline tasks, engage the end user, and orchestrate incident response workflows, whilst providing executive insights for human-centric security.

We’ll showcase solutions to help you intervene in cyber attacks as soon as possible and place protections along the attack chain at every opportunity.

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(1) Gartner, Leadership Vision for 2024: Security and Risk Management, Tom Scholtz, Lisa Neubauer, January 2024 - gartner.com/document/5069331