The security industry is experiencing déjà vu, and most teams haven’t recognized it yet.
If you were in the trenches during the early 2000s, you remember the antivirus arms race. IT teams buried under signature updates. Configuration baselines checked obsessively. Patch cycles treated as the primary defense. Meanwhile, attackers pivoted. They wrote malware that matched no known signature and walked through the front door while the guards were checking outdated IDs.
The posture-first approach revealed its limitations as the endpoint attack surface exploded. The industry faced visibility gaps and realized you cannot harden what you cannot fully see. The posture-first approach wasn’t wrong. It ...