A five-level hierarchy for cyber maturity: asset visibility, basic hygiene, access and compliance, detection and response, then resilience, automation and AI.
Advanced security technologies only create value when foundational controls are in place. The IT needs pyramid provides a decision framework that starts with visibility and builds progressively toward resilient, automated cyber operations.
In an ever-changing threat landscape, where cybercrime has become increasingly industrialized, businesses often rush to adopt cutting-edge technologies, lured by the promise of artificial intelligence that will solve all their problems.
But by ignoring the fundamentals of cyber hygiene, they are building a fragile and illusory security framework. For a CEO or finance director, this approach poses a major operational and financial risk.
