We Have Entered a Cybersecurity Hellscape, Japan Warns
THE SO WHAT
If a G7 government is publicly calling the threat environment a "cybersecurity hellscape," assume your own attack surface is already being probed by the same actors. Raise the bar on logging, backups, and incident response this quarter—treat ransomware and data exfiltration as when, not if.
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