On February 1, Forward Defense senior advisor Stephen Rodriguez was quoted in a Dark Reading article titled “7 red flags that can stop your company from becoming a unicorn.” Rodriguez states that more cyber companies must build the capability to respond to cyberattacks rather than just analyzing them after the fact.

There are a ton of companies out there that monitor or assess or analyze, but very few that actually alert and then fix a cyber-risk or attack.

Stephen Rodriguez
Forward Defense

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