With these changes a new security paradigm is emerging, one that charges security and network professionals not only with keeping threats out, but also with gaining and maintaining visibility over what's already inside their networks; however, the increasing complexity of networks creates blind spots that make seeing these threats more difficult than ever. What's more, these blind spots are caused by a number of factors and often create bottlenecks that can degrade network performance.
In one particular instance, a customer contacted the RISK Team with an issue involving a primary competitor, a suspected threat actor, located on another continent that had recently made public a new piece of large construction equipment. At first glance, the equipment looked like an exact copy of a model recently developed by our customer, the victim. This was even more suspicious as the competitor, the threat actor, hadn't traditionally produced this type of equipment and therefore had no past track record in this part of the market. The victim's concern was not just that this equipment's design details were obtained illicitly, but that other projects were also in danger of similar compromise.
Whether software development or infrastructure, the manner in which cloud computing projects are delivered is altered enough to require a slightly different approach to project management.
