The cybersecurity market is full of good technology. The challenge is no longer simply finding the tools—it is knowing which ones actually fit the business, how they should be applied, and where a standard solution falls short. That matters because many standard security stacks are built around infrastructure rather than the applications the business actually depends on. A company may have strong endpoint, email, identity, network, and backup controls while critical applications,...

New customers, suppliers, partners and outsourced services can change what your business depends on—and the protection it needs. The question is whether anyone is looking across those changes as one business-risk problem.

In 2020, Stradis Healthcare was supplying medical packaging at a time when getting personal protective equipment where it needed to go was critical. Then its shipping operations were disrupted. The problem wasn't ransomware or a sophisticated attack from overseas. It came from access created by someone the company had legitimately trusted. Christopher Dobbins, Stradis' former vice president of finance, had administrator access to systems containing the company's shipping information. Before...