Chad Koslow, CEO, Ridge IT
Think your security stack is protecting you? Last year, we found a financial services company with the “best cybersecurity program I’d ever seen” had unknowingly exposed every Windows device to the internet. They had everything – policies, procedures, the best tools, smart teams. But they didn’t know what they didn’t know.
Most organizations follow the same playbook:
The result? You can’t wake up without seeing a new breach on TV. You can’t check your mail without another “your data may have been exposed” letter.
In this keynote, Chad shares two devastating case studies:
Case Study 1: A company spending $500,000 annually on SSL inspection – with the tool turned off. Someone moved the switch from “on” to “off” and nobody knew for months.
Case Study 2: The “perfect” security program that wasn’t blocking 84% of threats hidden in SSL traffic, despite having every security control imaginable.
Even Zero Trust implementations fall victim to the same fundamental problem: You don’t know what you don’t know.
We trust:
But we never validate if our security controls actually work against real threats.
The U.S. military measures effectiveness against real threats every single day. They drill, test, identify gaps, and remediate before facing actual combat.
Why don’t we do this in cybersecurity?
Ridge IT implemented this approach three years ago. The results were humbling – even as Microsoft Gold Partners, Zscaler Partner of the Year, and CrowdStrike Elite Partners managing 500,000+ endpoints, we were getting destroyed by basic attacks.
Instead of waiting for someone else to exploit your vulnerabilities, find your weaknesses first. Every company improves their security posture after a breach – why not do it before the breach happens?
Automated threat validation gives you:
Forget navigating the complexities of cybersecurity.
Forget navigating the complexities of cybersecurity.
We protect over 500,000+ humans with military-grade cybersecurity tools. Our mission: deliver cloud-first protection with rapid response times that’s surprisingly simple to manage.
Rapid response times, with around the clock IT support, from Inc. Magazine’s #1 MSSP.
Rapid response times, with around the clock IT support, from Inc. Magazine’s #1 MSSP.
