Security is a space that is built upon collaboration—antivirus companies study markets, work with ethical hackers and focus on specific points of network infrastructure to keep both companies and consumers secure.
This methodical process may have worked in the early days of the internet, but innovation in sectors such as IoT and mobile are creating unforeseen gaps, presenting additional targets for bad actors to exploit. Given the interconnected nature of technology in markets that rely on APIs, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and platform-based models, breaches that impact one company will have ripple effects into others. On the consumer side, people often use similar passwords between services.
