Partner Perspective: Knowing What’s on Your Network is a Foundational Cyber-Hygiene Step

Ransomware attacks don’t happen in the blink of an eye, despite what many think, says cybersecurity expert Nadir Izrael, chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Armis. For weeks and months, bad actors will penetrate an organization, overriding and infecting different systems before the final attack. A lot can be done at the beginning of such an attack to mitigate it, if cyber-leaders have a good understanding of their assets and how they all interconnect, he says. In this Live at Vive episode of healthsystemCIO’s Partner Perspective Interview Series, Anthony Guerra, founder and editor-in-chief, interviews Izrael, who says good cyber-hygiene is an organization’s best defense. “The reality is that most attacks don’t happen with these super fancy, Zero-days that just came out. They happen with run-of-the-mill vulnerabilities that have existed for a long time and just old equipment,” he says.