The State of Security with Salesforce's Taher Elgamal and TAG Cyber’s Ed Amoroso

<p>Too lucrative, too easy, and not enough investment. In the simplest terms possible, that is how you could describe the current state of cybersecurity. Over the last month, we’ve heard from some of the top minds in the industry, and a general consensus is that despite the innovations and optimism in the world of cybersecurity,  those three issues remain at the heart of the problem. </p><p><i>“There's more tools available. There is more research. The hacking communities are actually businesses. They employ people, they pay people and they ride these things and it is becoming easier. The overall system has not been very well-studied to understand what are the right things to do and what things we should limit and that kind of thing.”</i></p><p>That’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/taherelgamal">Taher Elgamal</a>, CTO for Security at <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/">Salesforce</a> and on this episode of<i> IT Visionaries</i>, our cybersecurity series concludes as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/taherelgamal">Taher </a>is joined by <a href="https://www.tag-cyber.com/about/eamoroso">Ed Amoroso</a>, Founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.tag-cyber.com/">TAG Cyber</a>. The two discuss the state of cybersecurity, including where companies are getting their security measures right, and where the industry is struggling as a whole. The two also detail why the growing divide in skills is a problem without an immediate solution, and why financial incentives are simultaneously the biggest opportunity to stop attacks and the biggest threat to escalating attacks.</p><p><strong>Main Takeaways</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Cyber Know How:</strong> Today it’s easy to simply buy a product or service and bolt that service on top of your current tech stack. But one of the biggest problems most enterprises are running into is a lack of knowledge in how to actually operate those services efficiently and effectively.</li><li><strong>Test, Then Test Again:</strong> Securing a network is not a one-time fix, it requires com