Security practitioners faced a series of challenges in this past year which forced organizations into uncharted waters.

As ransomware operators were attacking state and municipal networks alongside hospitals and schools, a global pandemic response to COVID-19 necessitated a move to remote work for a significant portion of the economy. Organizations had to adopt new technologies and quickly scale outside of their normal growth plans.

As organizations settled into a new understanding of “normal,” UNC2452, a suspected nation-state threat actor, conducted one of the most advanced cyber espionage campaigns in recent history. Many security teams were forced to suspend wide-ranging analyses around the adoption of remote work policies and instead focus on a supply chain attack from a trusted platform.