Rubin: Viewing cybersecurity as binary safe versus breached is no longer viable
Andrew Rubin · a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:30
Andrew Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of cloud security startup Illumio. He discusses the paradigm shift in enterprise security toward assuming system breach.
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“I think the aha moment for security, and it's recent, it's measured probably in months or maybe a year or two, is that this concept of being in a binary state of safe or breached is no longer a viable way to look at the world. Because with this much out there, it's almost an assumption that you've already been breached or you will be breached and you may not know it right away.”
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