Effective Response to Critical Production Threats

Alyssa Miller suggests more attention to mitigating, rather than scrambling to patch vulnerabilities, after high profile cybersecurity incidents. Drawing an analogy to the handling of emergencies in the world of private aviation, she proposed a methodical approach that includes prioritizing the most immediate risks, deploying mitigations quickly to delay attacks, and discerning critical remediation from business-as-usual patches. She also advocated the use of threat assessments and managing longer-term risks by adding them to software development backlogs for future updates.