Put yourself in the shoes of Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic, seconds after the iceberg was reported to him and seconds (there were 37 of them, reportedly) before he reacted. In this critical timeframe – this brief space of time when the inevitability of disaster became clear – was the great ship’s fate decided?
Like the maritime world before marine radar, there are times in IT security when the iceberg of an attack remains shrouded in fog and invisible. Yet there are also times when disaster is clearly right in front of us. It is these times – when we can see the data breach coming and need to steer the ship around it – that truly test our foresight.