Building Cybersecurity Strategies: A Game of Digital Mahjong

[eender405]

Hi everyone,

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how designing a strong cybersecurity strategy feels a lot like playing a complex game of Mahjong: every move matters, timing is crucial, and one wrong tile can shift the entire outcome.

With AI-driven automation and increasingly dynamic threat landscapes, our “tiles” — firewalls, threat intelligence, and endpoint defenses — are getting harder to align.

How do you balance speed, adaptability, and reliability in your security infrastructure without creating blind spots or unnecessary complexity?

Would love to hear insights from others who’ve been dealing with similar challenges.

[Brandon_Wertz]

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@eender405 wrote:

Hi everyone,

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how designing a strong cybersecurity strategy feels a lot like playing a complex game of Mahjong: every move matters, timing is crucial, and one wrong tile can shift the entire outcome.

With AI-driven automation and increasingly dynamic threat landscapes, our “tiles” — firewalls, threat intelligence, and endpoint defenses — are getting harder to align.

How do you balance speed, adaptability, and reliability in your security infrastructure without creating blind spots or unnecessary complexity?

Would love to hear insights from others who’ve been dealing with similar challenges.

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@eender405  -- Kinda a cool topic. I think it comes down to not complicating your firewall design/policy, using native feature functionality where at all possible and using AI/automation where it makes sense.

Consuming an OEM's native threat services and leveraging them to the highest degree possible.  A recent example in the Palo/Strata product.  We had a recent test where C2 call back was leveraged and the tester expected that callback to be successful, but it wasn't.  The C2 callback being a "low" threat, it's default action is "alert" proactively setting these types of events to a blocking action is needed into today's cyber threat landscape.

Having a secure network is more than just deploying to security tool or feature you need to understand it and tune it to your environment.  However deploying some overly complex design or a something that's hard to maintain will likely mean things will be overlooked and that's where intrusions occur.