Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie

David J. Bianco
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David J. Bianco is the staff security strategist on the SURGe by Splunk team.



Practically every security professional has run across “the defender’s dilemma” sometime in their career. It goes like this: “Defenders have to be right every time. Attackers only need to be right once.”
The idea that attackers have all the advantages and that defenders must be passive and wait for something to respond to is practically an axiom of cybersecurity.
It is also a lie.
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