“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.” It’s funny that such a thought came from a tennis superstar rather than a cybersecurity professional, but that doesn’t diminish from its astounding prescience in today’s digital world.
Data has transformed into a valuable commodity. Security has changed alongside it, but at the same reactive pace that it always has. The job of a security professional has always been to respond to threats, continually re-fortify defenses, try to anticipate what may occur and plan accordingly.