It may not always be possible to foresee oncoming attacks. In addition, it might be expensive for some companies to keep so many threat-monitoring tools running if the organization seldom gets attacked. Reactive security is an approach that, instead of anticipating cybersecurity incidences, responds to the past or present threats after they have happened. Therefore, only when an organization is targeted by hackers and breached does reactive security kick in. Using this approach, the victim organization assesses the threat and the impacts the cyberattack had. Using this information, security measures are installed to prevent similar attacks in the future.
The reactive security strategy makes financial and business sense to many business executives, and that is why many organizations are stuck in it. The executives are mostly focused on reducing expenses and...