For years, cybersecurity professionals have been repeating the same warning: Every company will eventually be breached.
Fine. Let’s accept that.
Then why do so many organizations still behave as if the near sole purpose of cybersecurity is to prevent the breach from ever happening?
That is the contradiction at the heart of modern cybersecurity strategy. We say, “Assume the breach,” but we budget, govern, architect, and rehearse as if the wall will hold. We tell boards compromise is inevitable, then ask for more money to make the wall higher, thicker, smarter, and more AI-enabled. We buy more tools. We tune more dashboards. We polish the gate. We call it maturity. And then, when the wall of o...