Cybersecurity Upside Down

Rethink Your Cybersecurity Strategy 
 
Most cybersecurity strategies are built on a dangerous assumption: that threats can be detected before they cause harm. But today’s attackers are faster, stealthier, and more targeted than ever. Signature-based antivirus, AI-powered detection, and even EDR tools are struggling to keep up — especially when it comes to one of the most overlooked risks in enterprise security: files. 
 
In Cybersecurity Upsidedown, OPSWAT founder Benny Czarny challenges conventional thinking with a bold new perspective rooted in file sanitization — a prevention-first approach that assumes every file is suspicious and proactively neutralizes threats before they can execute. Sometimes known as Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR), file sanitization doesn’t look for malware. It removes the possibility of it. 

Part technical guide, part personal journey, and part call to action, this book explores how file-based attacks are compromising critical systems every day — and how organizations can defend themselves with smarter, simpler prevention strategies. 
 
Whether you're a security professional, an executive making risk decisions, or just someone who wants to understand the next frontier in cybersecurity, this book will change the way you think about threats, trust, and the invisible risks hiding in plain sight.