| Written By Gregory Rattray and Ian Pelekis | New York, NY – February 26, 2021 – Over the last year, the New York Cyber Task Force (NYCTF) gathered leading experts from business, policy and academia to analyze the degree to which the United States is ready for future cyber challenges to its national security. Today, the NYCTF will unveil its report on Enhancing Readiness for National Cyber Defense through Operational Collaboration, which identifies gaps in U.S. cyber response capabilities and details five recommendations for improving U.S. cyber readiness. The NYCTF examined the future to anticipate severe shocks adversaries might present in the cyber realm in order to identify areas to improve national cyber readiness. Task Force members, including Dmitri

| Written By Gregory Rattray and Jim Cummings | The cyber threat landscape is ever-changing, and organizations around the world must continuously reassess their cybersecurity capabilities to meet new defense challenges. Next Peak’s co-founders, Jim Cummings and Greg Rattray, have worked on the cyber defense frontlines for decades, and have seen the nature of the threat evolve through multiple iterations from both the public and private sector. They have leveraged deep strategic expertise and frontline experience to develop a holistic framework to help clients improve their cyber defense posture. In this blog post we explore the changing threat landscape and how Next Peak is uniquely positioned to help clients focus their approaches to cyber defense. A changing threat landscape and new

The shift to remote work forced by the pandemic has accelerated on-going technological changes. The result: a surge in endpoint devices, operating systems and data streams for most organizations. Attack surfaces have expanded rapidly. An ever-growing number of threat actors seek to exploit existing vulnerabilities, deploy tools of increasing sophistication, and use new ploys to gain access. CISOs and security teams should try to reduce attack surfaces where possible. However, the necessity of remote work still demands that companies find a way to manage added risk from larger attack surfaces compared to when operations were mainly on-site. Security data discipline provides an approach to accommodate expanding attack surfaces while empowering security teams with the right information to stop attacks more