At first, the title of this blog sounds like an excuse. It’s that sentence that almost every company uses ‘after’ they got hacked. (Don’t worry, we didn’t!). According to me it’s a bad excuse if you present it after everything has fallen apart and only then start working on it. You need to work on it every day.

In this series of 3 blog posts we’d like to share a bit of the Serious work we’re doing at TOPdesk to Secure our customers’ data. We’re doing this not just to keep the data safe, but also because Security is an amazingly interesting and fun topic to work on.

In part 1 and part 2 we talked about making all our colleagues aware of the risks, and how we help Developers write Secure code. In this part we’d like to tell you how we’re continuously monitoring our software for suspicious behavior and how we can respond if something needs our attention.

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