Every creature must contend with predators. Every life form is in one way or another a food source for another. Life eats life. How do you defend yourself in the tech kingdom? What kind of animal are you there? What's your security paradigm?
When you walk out of your house to bring your children to the playground, you do not leave the door open behind; you keep an eye on who might approach your offspring. You are protected by the neighborhood you selected, by the police, by laws, and by shared values. The Internet is wide open, lawless, global, and opaque. How do you protect your business on the Internet?
How many third-party entities have access to your data through software installed in your machines? How many host sensitive information on shared servers or multi-tenant infrastructure that you do not control? How many have already lost, through data breaches, the passwords that your staff uses (or reuses) everywhere?
What would it take to knock your network, your Website server or self-hosted applications offline?
What if a remote device, accessing corporate resources behind your firewall or in the cloud, became rogue or fell into the wrong hands? How can you prevent this from ever happening?
How well are your websites or hosted applications protected (CRM, ERP, RMM, LOBs, Web-based services to clients, Private Cloud storage and chat/collaboration, Mail)? Do they contain data which by law (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, etc.) is entitled to special protection? Would the data still be readily accessible if the server went down?