Vendors, suppliers, contractors, and other strategic partners all add to the scope of your IT environment, including additional risks to be managed. Accounting for the vulnerabilities and threats that come with the territory through third party risk management is a necessity to keep all stakeholders involved secure. (more…)
Category: Cybersecurity Solutions
Discover comprehensive cybersecurity solutions including threat detection, vulnerability management, AI-driven defense, and strategic implementation guides to fortify your organization’s defenses.
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Five Steps to Effective Third Party Risk Assessment
Impactful, efficient third party vendor risk management comes down to five critical steps: (more…)
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Optimizing Third Party Vendor Risk Management for Financial Institutions
Financial institutions with extended networks of strategic partners need to manage the risks that come along with navigating multiple IT environments simultaneously. Impactful third party risk management finds and neutralizes these threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance risks. (more…)
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A Beginner’s Guide to Detecting Insider Threats
Detecting insider threats comes down to four critical procedures:
- Scanning for vulnerabilities to be exploited internally
- Understanding the motives behind internal threats
- Monitoring for signs of intentional internal threat activity
- Maintaining vigilance through cybersecurity awareness training
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Implement Real-time Phishing Training for Employees
There are several crucial elements to protecting your workforce from social engineering: (more…)
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How vCISOs Optimize Data Breach Management
There are four primary factors to effective, vCISO-led data breach management:
- Sound cybersecurity governance leads to effective risk prevention
- Leadership facilitates monitoring for swift data breach detection
- Incident response in real-time neutralizes threats as they arise
- Ongoing security advisory mitigates long-term breach impacts
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Top 6 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices for 2023
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. (more…)
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How to Implement a Unified Threat Management Program
There are five steps to deploying an effective unified threat management program:
- Installing cybersecurity architecture for visibility and reporting
- Identifying security baselines to compare potential threats against
- Understanding the landscape of vulnerabilities that threats could exploit
- Monitoring for threat actors and threat vectors that could target your systems
- Neutralizing threats and vulnerabilities before they develop into incidents
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How to Use A Security Maturity Assessment Tool
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.
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How to Build an Information Security Plan for Your Small Business
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.