Today, organizations are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that are designed to cripple their business or permanently destroy their IT systems.
As digital transformation and hyper-convergence create unintended gateways to risks, vulnerabilities, attacks, and failures, a cyber resilience strategy can help your business withstand disruptive cyber incidents. It can help you defend against those risks, protect your critical applications and data, and recover from breach or failure in a controlled, measurable way.
In this sophisticated threat environment, traditional security tactics are failing. The old methods of adding another point product to the mix or waiting for IT to identify and propose technology solutions to the business side of the house is less effective than ever. No organization can simultaneously sift through alerts, track vulnerabilities, apply security policies across various systems and endpoints, and accurately assess what a mass of global threat data actually reveals in real time. To manage these competing challenges, organizations must change their security posture from a defensive stance focused on malware to a more realistic and resilient approach—a cyber resilient approach.
Cyber resilience is about managing security with a multi-layered approach that encompasses people, processes, and technology. Correlating security intelligence is important, but just as important is increasing your employees’ security IQ so they can make better decisions and reduce risky behavior. This expanded scope helps to eliminate the cyber gap between IT and business, requiring the two sides of the house to proactively align and present a united front against threat and incursion.
The process can be best thought of as a framework with five pillars: prepare/identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. Using this framework, you can evaluate each pillar of your organization’s cyber security strategy.
The five pillars of the cyber-resilience framework are:
▪ Identify: Critical asset and process mapping, risk and readiness assessment, and so forth
▪ Protect: Traditional first line of defense security mechanisms
▪ Detect: Security analytics
▪ Respond: Response to security breaches or failure
▪ Recover: Coordinated recovery mechanisms
The key advantage of the cyber-resilience framework is that it puts business forward. Traditionally, security has operated as an overlay to the business. Cyber-resilience integrates security into the business itself, allowing for the five components to be present in all areas of the business.
For example looking at the pillar for prepare/identify, vulnerability assessments can expose weaknesses that exist in an organization’s security posture. By evaluating the risk posed by each weakness and addressing the weaknesses that are most critical, you should be able to improve your preparedness for an attack. With each scheduled cycle of assessments, the security strategy is honed, and since every organization has unique systems and different security needs, the results of each series of assessments is evaluated based on the current threat environment and the acceptable risk level for the organization, rather than a relatively generic series of checklists.
For each of these pillars, best practice-based approaches are recommended for minimizing cyber risk, with each requiring specific actions to be performed by identifiable IT jobs.
How we can help???
- Do vulnerability assessments
- Proposed best practices solutions/approaches
- Train users on best practices and risky behavior
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