You're not wrong. The entire cybersecurity industry is a joke. You cannot play defense forever. You can only dig a bunker so deep, walls so thick, and areas so compartmentalized, before you have dug your own tomb and suffocated inside of it, or opened up a backdoor by tunneling through to the other side of the planet.

It's called cyberwarfare for a reason. After mounting a defense, you're expected to stage an offense to proactively eliminate threats and deter future intrusions by fear of response. The only countries that understand this are Israel, Iran, Russia and China. The rest of us are content to burden ourselves with enduring global cyber-siege forever and acting like we're anything other than livestock building our own pens around us.