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BLOG | Nov 8, 2024

Technical Debt: An enterprise’s self-inflicted cyber risk 

Technical debt has become the foremost self-imposed cyber threat within enterprises.
Renata Budko
Renata Budko Director of Product Management, Security 
Who should read this post?
  • IT and security leaders concerned with reducing cybersecurity risks from technical debt
  • Network engineers and architects handling complex enterprise infrastructures
What is covered in this content?
  • What is technical debt, and how has it been traditionally managed by network operators?
  • How does technical debt put network security at risk, and how can digital twin technology mitigate such risk?

COMMENTARY: Technical debt has become the foremost self-imposed cyber threat within enterprises. But what are we talking about? Why does it happen? And, how can enterprises ensure that obsolete hardware and unattended software aren’t inadvertently leaving the network open to risk?

McKinsey defines technical debt as the “tax” a company pays on any development to redress existing technology issues. And it’s not cheap. The consulting firm’s research found that technical debt accounts for about 40% of IT balance sheets – and that companies pay an additional 10% to 20% on top of a project’s cost to address it.

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