Cybersecurity Tips: How you can Secure Your Organization in 2022?

 Security breaches like the recent Solar Winds and Colonial Pipeline hacks have shown the dangers of not protecting yourself and your company’s data. Here are some achievable steps that all companies can take towards working on their cybersecurity, however large or small they may be.

Take up a Risk-Based Approach to Cybersecurity:

Cyber threats are a challenge for everyone, not just IT or security. Cyber hygiene requires teamwork and must start with business leaders who should promote a culture that looks to strengthen an organization’s resilience. The IT and security teams may be experts in their fields, but the company’s leadership is most knowledgeable on what the business priorities are because they work closely with other departments involved in the company’s overall success. A proactive, risk-based approach is crucial to staying competitive against potential adversaries. Business leaders need to think of their cyber posture just like they do their P&L (profit-and-loss statement), as an indicator of business health. This outside-the-box approach breaks away from conventional means of keeping up with a very real threat that needs immediate attention lest one fall behind the competition!

Get A Managed Security Services and Solutions Provider:

More organizations are turning to managed security services providers (MSSPs) to help bolster their cybersecurity response. A great MSSP acts as a trusted advisor to your organization and observes cyber hygiene and business continuity with great attention. Most MSSPs offer continuous security monitoring, threat detection, and response but a truly great web host will go beyond their SLAs by looking for ways to keep your organization one step ahead of cyber threats through proactive solutions.

Be Adaptable, Agile, and Aware:

Traditional formulaic approaches to tackling a digital-centric security challenge often fall short, as they are more easily predictable and predictable than what one would expect. Today's ever-evolving threat landscape requires agile (non-linear) thinking as opposed to more traditional linear and 'simply compliance' inspired approaches. Think of the process as a step ladder - we've evolved in climbing the steps up but haven't yet turned around to look back or look forward at the new challenges coming our way. But if we do that then we can better anticipate potential future threats and include them into newer, better tactics for managing risks.   Sun Tzu offers three key ideas that can help us identify challenges and opportunities as they form in this new battlespace:

Know the environment: If you’re going to climb a mountain you need to have an understanding of the environment your team is operating in. In order to figure out what challenges are ahead you must know exactly what they might be, and how you will respond if the situation changes unexpectedly.

Know the enemy: The key to special operations and asymmetric warfare is not to demonize the other side, because if you do, then it clouds what you're trying to do - which is to figure out how best to defeat them. You have to know how they think and work and put yourself in their shoes if you are going to be successful in this arena.

Know who you are: It doesn’t matter how tough you are. Eventually, you’re going to run into the wrong person at the wrong time and they will defeat you. If you begin to realize this today instead of when it is too late, then when someone else tries to bully or take advantage of you, then you can stop them before it gets a chance to encroach upon your lifestyle in any negative way.

Don’t Stop at Minimum Compliance Standards:

While meeting CMMI compliance or other regulatory standards is important and valuable to all teams, it's a two-way street that helps ensure businesses are operating at their highest possible level. By establishing an effective standard, the base is created so a business can operate more efficiently while thinking proactive steps ahead in terms of risk assessment and management.

Organizations can achieve true cyber maturity when they follow these requirements regularly, as well as adapt programs based on what’s critical to their organization and how that ties into the ways that their most vital assets can be put at risk.

Maintaining compliance, maturity, and program effectiveness involve making sure that your organization has the right level of resources in place to stay abreast of regulatory developments, as well as threats seen in the wild, and reliable methods for educating the entire workforce on potential security problems.

Every organization wants to stay up-to-date with the latest best practices for cyber security. However, constantly switching between different products can increase risk. Companies can build resiliency against threats by utilizing a single system and method for managing reporting, communication, and incident response in order to not only reduce that risk but also ensure compliance with industry standards.

Conclusion:

CyRAACS is the premier cyber resiliency software platform – allowing each of its partners across a variety of industries to defend against threats and operate with maximum efficiency while also enabling them to be resilient to whatever the future may hold.