Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2021 Application Security Trend Report.
Organizations and individuals face an ever-increasing threat from a wide variety of actors. Threats can come from nation states, organized crime gangs, or even determined individuals. These attacks come in the forms of ransomware, which can cripple your business and cause data loss or data exfiltration. Beyond ransomware, more insidious attacks like the SolarWinds supply chain attack can impact a large number of organizations beyond the initial attack victim. A supply chain attack looks for weak links in the business process — in this case, pursuing a network monitoring vendor whose software is widely used and inherently needs to run with high privileges.