Detecting insider threats comes down to four critical procedures:
There are several crucial elements to protecting your workforce from social engineering:
There are four primary factors to effective, vCISO-led data breach management:
Organizations in every industry need to conduct regular risk assessments to identify both the vulnerabilities in their systems and threats that could exploit them. This is especially true if your organization’s regulatory frameworks also require assessments. Leveraging vCISO services is one of the best ways to optimize for sound cyberdefense governance.
One of the core aims of cybersecurity is protecting data from being compromised or lost. Data loss prevention (DLP) is focused on the latter, ensuring data is retained even when an incident occurs. Effective DLP comes down to neutralizing risks and optimizing incident management.
There are five steps to deploying an effective unified threat management program:
In September 2011, The National Institute for Standard and Technology (NIST) created Special Publication (SP) 500-292, “NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture,” to establish a baseline cloud computing architecture. NIST SP 500-292 defines services and relationships between cloud service providers, consumers, and other stakeholders.
Cybersecurity is a strategic enterprise risk that goes beyond information technology. Ill-defined, it can lead to a loss of integrity, customer experience, or investor confidence. Coupled with a need for regulatory compliance, organizations must use security maturity assessment tools to align with industry standards.
Information Security (InfoSec) is a constantly evolving part of cybersecurity that includes methodologies to keep networks safe and secure no matter the level of outside attacks. Small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are no stranger to these cyber-attacks. Even though 87% of small business owners don’t think that they are at risk of a cyber-attack, the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) says that 43% of cyber-attacks target small businesses.
Many SMBs think they aren’t at risk for a cyber-attack, but because SMBs often lack a comprehensive security plan, hackers have figured out that small businesses are an easier target for stealing sensitive personal and/or financial information. Although having an information security policy for small businesses isn’t the end-all solution to combat cyber-attacks, it does provide SMBs with more visibility on the number of intrusions to their network infrastructure.
As more SMBs are targeted and breached by malicious hackers, business owners are seeking the formula for designing an information security plan that’s a fit for any small business. Although information security plans are not one-size-fits-all, they all do follow a similar recipe. Follow along as we cook up the comprehensive guide every small business needs to combat hackers and keep their data infrastructure safe from cyber-attacks.
Managing your cyberdefense internally can be costly and ineffective if resources are not properly allocated. By outsourcing to a third-party team of experts, you can increase the efficacy of your architecture implementation, risk mitigation, incident management, and regulatory compliance. Best of all, MSSPs are often much more resource-efficient.