As anyone in the network security world will tell you, it is an extremely intense and stressful job to protect the corporate network from ever-evolving security threats. For a security team, a 99 percent success rate is still a complete failure. That one time a hacker, piece of malware, or DDoS attack brings down your organization’s network (or network availability) is all that matters.
It’s even more frustrating when you consider that the proverbial ‘bad guy’ sitting in the basement of his mother’s house can spend less than $1,000 USD on a computer and malware and bring down a network that you have spent millions of dollars on state-of-the-art equipment to protect.
