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“ We approach cybersecurity as a business-enabling function that empowers our clients to execute digital transformations and fulfil their existential missions ,” says Gaidhane . “ What we ' ve seen is that , as organisations grow their business and take on large transformations – such as cloud migrations or broadbased operational tech migrations or evolutions – their attack surfaces , and then consequently , their threat numbers , are growing at an unprecedented rate .”
He points out that threat actors use this extended business enterprise , such as OT or manufacturing or cloud , to gain access to client systems . Their motivations for these threat actors range from nation state adversaries , access of sensitive information or intellectual property to terrorists .
“ They are trying to disrupt infrastructure and operations . This is especially true if it ' s critical to a new generation of threat actors , who are using these vulnerabilities as a way to raise the stakes in ransomware attacks and get paid .”
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