Hi, Colin and Jurgen.
Thank you for being here.
The rise of cyber threats is always increasing.
So how can businesses keep up?
Yeah, it's all about building a good and strong cyber defense
foundation, but also of regularly testing your
cybersecurity controls.
I recommend to clients, do regular red teaming, purple
teaming exercises, really test your controls so you can get a
really good understanding of how robust your security controls
are when you actually put them through the test, when you run
some real threat simulations against your environments. So
what the attackers would be doing, basically.
I think this is where we've seen organizations really have to
focus this at the business level.
This becomes a business imperative.
This is not just a cybersecurity problem or technology problem.
You have to understand the business risks, the threats and
how in the event that something bad does happen, what are the
implications.
So then you're making the right decisions on, as Jurgen was
saying, what defenses are you putting in place so you can make
your organization stronger.
Well, GenAI
is totally changing the game.
So how is GenAI
transforming the cybersecurity landscape?
Yeah, so there are two sides, as always, to it, right?
What are the defenders doing with GenAI?
And obviously defenders are using it to help, for example,
overcome the talent gap that our industry has been facing for
many, many decades, right?
So automating processes, helping streamline cyber defense
operations, using GenAI
to basically help them with critical decision making, right.
But of course, on the other side, right, the bad guys are
also starting to use GenAI.
We've seen them, for example, use it, especially around social
engineering, right?
Building more convincing social engineering attacks with better
impersonations that allows them to really have these targeted
phishing campaigns and go after those individuals and those
organizations.
I think what we've seen is that this is not a fundamental change
to what you do in your cybersecurity world.
You should be building off of good existing practices, how you
can do better, stronger.
I think that we try to have organizations think about is
making sure that this doesn't introduce new tech debt because
you've done something so fast you haven't thought of the
cybersecurity implications of it.
And then making sure that you're actually protecting your
information and making sure that, what is the model doing
with the data?
Does it stay in your environment?
Does it leave your environment?
And then ultimately, what are third parties doing with the
data you give them and how are they using GenAI
in their own applications, in their own situations, so that
you make sure that whatever they are using your data for is still
protected.
So how are BCG and Mandiant working together to safeguard
organizations?
So I think this has been a great opportunity from a partnership
perspective.
When Jurgen and I first started talking some time ago, we
realized that we were passing each other in the halls on on
several different incidents with clients.
And it was really an opportunity to take the best of what both
companies really do.
How do we make sure that we're telling the story from the
C-Suite all the way down to the people who are responding and
giving the organization one voice.
One consistent message and one way to actually respond to
incidents when something happens. And then pre-breach and
post-breach,
what else can we do with the organization?
Because we think there's a lot that can be done, as Jurgen was
alluding to before, in the security posture in an
organization, understanding the risks and then how do you
protect an organization more proactively?
Yeah, when Colin and I started working together, we saw how
well the portfolios of the two organizations complement each
other.
And as a consultant at heart, I'm always about building
solutions for our clients, right?
As comprehensive of a solution as possible.
Understanding that cyber is one element of the overall risk
landscape that organizations are facing.
And realizing that, by bringing together BCG and Mandiant, we
can offer so much more capabilities and so much more
comprehensive engagements to our clients.
That's really what what started this partnership.
Okay, comprehensive solutions for the risk landscape.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you.