The cybersecurity market is overly focused on auditing policy compliance and performing vulnerability testing when the level of business risk presented demands a holistic risk assessment and agile security architecture to be developed proactively.

We advocate that organisations shouldn’t build a castle without internal protection within its walls, instead they should build along the lines of the airport model with multiple layers of security that monitor and adapt to threats as needed. They should seek specialist professional support to ensure that ‘secure by design’ principles are adopted across the business and permeate through all business processes, products and services.

In this insight we have discussed the current cybersecurity ecosystem and the need for a ‘Cybersecurity Domain Specialist’. This insight also provides advice for organisations on how to initiate a secure by design cybersecurity approach across all business processes, products and services.