Cybersecurity expert Candid Wüest: Businesses must prioritize operational resilience
In an expert interview with Enginsight, cybersecurity specialist Candid Wüest emphasizes the shift toward technological sovereignty and the critical need to manage non-human digital identities.
Cybersecurity expert Candid Wüest argues that companies must move beyond mere preventative measures and prioritize operational resilience to survive in a volatile threat landscape. According to Wüest, technological sovereignty—the ability to control critical data, infrastructure, and cloud services—has become a key component of a firm's strategic stability.
A central focus of the discussion is the rise of non-human identities (NHI), including bots, applications, and AI agents. Wüest notes that modern attacks increasingly target these machine-based credentials, exploiting service accounts or hijacked sessions rather than traditional user passwords. As a result, robust identity and access management are becoming the cornerstones of modern security architectures.
Looking forward, Wüest predicts a transition from periodic vulnerability scanning toward continuous, AI-assisted attack surface management. He notes that while AI-driven security operations centers (AI-SOC) can streamline processes, they do not replace the need for human oversight, especially regarding critical decision-making.
Ultimately, Wüest advocates for a renewed focus on "secure by design" principles. By embedding security requirements and supply chain analysis directly into procurement and development phases, organizations can reduce the need for reactive patching and better mitigate risks from emerging technologies.