Security & Threat Intelligence · 25.07.2026, 15:29 UTC
Winning 54% of the time
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| Kategorie | Security & Threat Intelligence |
| Quelle | Cisco Talos ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.07.2026 UTC |
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Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. There’s a fairly cliché phrase in cybersecurity that I’m sure our audience is familiar with: Attackers only need to be right once, whereas defenders need to be right 100% of the time. I guess it captures the asymmetry of this industry, but I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the phrase because it assumes cybersecurity is a game of perfection. One mistake and it's over. I’ve been watching a lot of Wimbledon this week, as I have done since childhood. In fact, I believe my first words were, “C’mon Tim!” (For our non-U.K. audience, I’m referring to tennis player Tim Henman, who made four Wimbledon semi-finals in the late 90s and early 2000s and has a hill in the Wimbledon grounds named after him). Of the “big three” (or the “big four” if you’re Scottish), my favourite was always Rafa Nadal, but I have to admit there’s no one who could deliver a one-handed backhand quite like Roger Federer. I bet that when he swats at a fly, the fly apologises and claps its wings. As I saw him sitting in the Royal Box entirely on his own this week, watching tennis out of pure love of the game while everyone else scoffed their strawberries and cream in the comfort of hospitality, I remembered the commencement speech he gave at Dartmouth a couple of years ago. He told the students that, across his entire career, he won 80% of his matches. But of all the total points he played, he won 54% of them. Tennis is a long game (no one can tell you that more than Novak Djokovic and Felix Auger Aliassime who just played the longest quarter final in …