Defense by Design: Building Infrastructure That Assumes Adversaries

Ransomware and other disruptive attacks rarely succeed because of a single catastrophic failure. More often, they succeed because a system was designed for availability and scale, but not for persistent, adaptive adversaries testing for weak points from the outside. For infrastructure and architecture leaders, that creates a practical challenge: how do you build systems that remain performant, cost-efficient, and operable while also standing up to attackers who are probing your environment for opportunities through traffic abuse, credential attacks, vulnerability exploitation, and social…