The Goal The customer develops advanced technologies for consumer, commercial, and government applications. The majority of their annual budget is spent on innovation, research & development, and business development. In 2016, the CEO asked his leadership team, including their CIO, to evaluate the company’s cybersecurity risk posture. As the company grew its impressive intellectual property (IP), it became increasingly apparent that cybersecurity was a key area of risk. Nation state sponsored threat actors and industry espionage driven hackers had developed a keen interest in their IP. The customer’s leadership team needed to make a concerted effort and investment to mitigate this increasing risk. They did not have the team, the time, or the expertise to establish a security pro

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