Cyber Defense Magazine Interview 🗺️
You’re Navigating a Jungle With a Static Map.
In a recent piece for Cyber Defense Magazine, our CEO Derek Nugent describes today’s cybersecurity environment as a jungle, and the comparison becomes more accurate the closer you look.
The terrain doesn’t stay still. New applications are deployed, AI systems gain access to sensitive workflows, and integrations connect systems that were never designed to interact. Over time, the environment reshapes itself, not through dramatic changes, but through subtle shifts that create new and often invisible attack paths.
Most of those paths are never intentionally designed. They emerge through growth, speed, and complexity.
That’s where attackers operate. Not by breaking through hardened perimeters, but by moving through what already exists, trusted connections, inherited permissions, and untested assumptions. By the time a path becomes visible, it’s often because it has already been used.
Navigating this kind of environment requires more than visibility. It requires understanding how systems behave under real-world attack conditions.
That’s where offensive security testing becomes essential.
Penetration testing and red team exercises uncover how these hidden paths form, how far they extend, and what an attacker can actually reach across modern environments.
Because in a landscape that continuously reshapes itself, the greatest risk isn’t what you can see. It’s what’s already taking form beneath the surface.
Read the full piece in the link below:
https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/the-cyber-jungle/
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