The firewall project really started the morning of the ransomware incident, when one of the paths the threat actor used to move around the network turned out to be a legacy VPN appliance that nobody had been watching closely. Replacing the perimeter was already on the roadmap. After the incident it became the roadmap.

When a ransomware attack hit our organization, it was a wake-up call. It exposed vulnerabilities in our endpoint security and made it clear that we needed a stronger defense. Leading the charge, I deployed CrowdStrike Falcon EDR to transform our cybersecurity posture and ensure we were prepared for the future.