Yes, hindsight is often 20/20. But what’s better than hindsight? Foresight. This allows you to prepare for a particular event rather than merely apply the lessons learned from a past cyberattack the next time around.
Unfortunately, depending on the significance of the attack, there may not be a next time. For an example of the consequences of Internet of Things (IoT) and Telnet, look no further than the recent record-shattering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against domain name provider Dyn, which used the Mirai IoT botnet.
