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Hexis Cyber Solutions: 2014 was a difficult year for retailers; if you could give industry giants
that have yet to be targeted one piece of advice as it pertains to their security posture, what
would it be? Would that advice change for industries outside of retail – i.e., healthcare,
government, and education?

Jon Oltsik: I have a few pieces of advice:

• Stop minimizing your attention to security. Always assume that there is a risk of being
breached.
• Take the fiduciary actions and responsibilities needed to protect your assets. Just like
you would protect your employees, you must also be protecting data, as well as your
customers.
• Assess your capabilities and resources. A lot of companies don’t have the necessary
resources to securely protect themselves. It’s important to be honest about what you
need.
Organizations can no longer assume preventative measures will stop them from being hacked;
it’s no longer a matter of “if” but rather “when” a company will be breached. To truly gain an
advantage against attackers, security and IT teams need to adopt a proactive approach to
incident response with policy-based automation so that organizations can reduce the time and
costs the team spends to detect, investigate and remove a threat. Then they can shift the bulk
of resources from focusing on what happened in the past, to creating a safer future.

About the Author

Todd Weller, VP, Corporate Development, joined Hexis Cyber Solutions in
March 2014. His responsibilities include analyst relations, competitive and
market intelligence, corporate visibility, M&A, and strategic partnership
development. Todd draws on his 17+ years of experience as an equity
research analyst where he covered the security industry for much of that time.
In his equity research career Todd provided research coverage of over 60
companies across several technology sectors, including security, infrastructure
software, data center/cloud hosting, and healthcare IT.

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