Cybersecurity Readiness
A new year is one of the few natural reset points in security work. Budgets refresh, roadmaps get rewritten, teams change shape, and last year’s incidents fade just enough to be dangerous. For a cybersecurity engineer, this moment is less about predictions and more about taking an honest look at what’s actually protecting the organization today. Before chasing new tools or frameworks, there are a handful of fundamentals worth evaluating early. These areas tend to surface the biggest risks, the fastest wins, and the clearest direction for the year ahead. 1. Your Actual Attack Surface (Not the One on the Diagram) Most organizations have an outdated mental model of what they’re exposing to the internet. Start by validating: Public-facing domains, subdomains, and IP ranges Cloud resources spun up for experiments that never shut down Third-party services with production access APIs that are documented nowhere but actively used The goal isn’t theoretical completeness. It’s reducing bli...