Partner Perspective: Understanding Cyber-Attack Trends is Critical For Placing Security Bets

If burglars were consistently entering houses in your neighborhood though the back door, it wouldn’t make much sense to spend the majority of your home defense budget fortifying the windows. According to Ryan Witt, VP of Industry Solutions, Healthcare, for Proofpoint, figuring out where to spend your cybersecurity budget should work much the same way. And speaking of healthcare, he notes that the more things change, the more they stay the same, with phishing consistently being a top attack vector for the past decade. Why? According to Witt, because it works. But there are ways to give you a better chance of fending off the bad guys. In this interview with healthsystemCIO Founder & Editor-in-Chief Anthony Guerra, Witt talks about some strategies for defense, what to do (and not do) post credential compromise, and why convincing users that IT security is on their side is so important.  

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