CyberSecurity Strategy For Defendable ROI (2)

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CyberSecurity Strategy For Defendable ROI
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Introduction

• In order to justify your companys investment
  into a comprehensive next-generation
  cybersecurity strategy, you must be able to prove
  that keeping up with the latest industry trends
  and tools is not only a responsible security
  posture but that it provides a justifiable ROI.

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Cyber Security Strategies

• Consider this the industry has been providing
  clients with defense-oriented solutions for the
  greater part of a decade now, and yet breaches
  still occur. Many solutions are on their way out
  or have become obsolete on their own, and it is
  becoming standard to use a multi-faceted,
  orchestrated approach with cybersecurity
  strategies.

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Bulkheads of Cybersecurity Strategy

• Building a plan predicated on prevention,
  detection, and response (our main emphasis), is
  already the new trend. With so many cyber attacks
  happening to major companies and entities over
  the past year, solidifying a strategy is more
  important than ever. With that in mind, and
  accepting trends in attacks, lets discuss the 3
  bulkheads of a cybersecurity strategy.
• Prevention
• Detection
• Response

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Prevention

• It is easier said than done, but it is still nice
  to imagine. Even so, you can imagine the
  multitudes of organizations that regret not
  taking extra precaution vis a vis preventative
  measures. As an initial step, a simple education
  for your employees goes a long way. A lot of
  these attacks upon employees happen initially
  through phishing emails, simply because an
  employee clicks a malicious link left in
  communication, with little understanding of
  potential risks. As a matter of fact, your
  employees can oftentimes be the proverbial front
  line against potential threats. This falls under
  the category of a holistic approach to
  cybersecurity strategies, and securing weak links
  can become a defensible mandate over your overall
  security culture.

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Risk Detection

• Risk detection serves as a major facet in any
  legitimate cybersecurity strategy. In this step,
  you are building your theoretical wall that will
  minimize penetration. Some of the best practices
  to help detect risks includes Identifying and
  documenting asset vulnerabilities, internal and
  external threats, acquiring threat and
  vulnerability information from external sources,
  identifying potential business impacts and
  likelihoods, determining enterprise risk by
  reviewing threats and identifying and
  prioritizing risk responses. Only when you have a
  realistic viewpoint of where your vulnerabilities
  reside will you be able to rebuild your new
  detection strategy.

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Incident Response

• Incident Response is key. After you have set up
  the wall of defense, and it is penetrated, you
  have to be the one armed to the teeth with
  weapons for a response, reporting, and
  remediation. After 10 years of honed in focus on
  prevention, and day to day analysts inundated
  with alerts, the industry is finally beginning to
  rely on next-generation incident response
  platforms capable of building actionable threat
  storyline, true alert prioritization and powerful
  case management. Developing a consistent strategy
  among your staff and being able to report on the
  actions taken to remediate the most important
  alerts is essential.

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Conclusion

• With so many new methods and angles of attack out
  in the internet ether, it is difficult to know
  when your companys information is fully
  protected. But, with a coherent, sound
  cybersecurity strategy, you can decrease the odds
  of vulnerability. By finding your current
  systems vulnerabilities, assessing other
  potential risks, and security orchestrating your
  existing security tools to maximize visibility,
  you are strategizing your success and
  guaranteeing a profitable ROI. Keeping costs to a
  minimum is key in any industry and certainly, in
  security operations centers across the globe, but
  by investing in a fully realized, three-prong
  approach to prevention, detection, and response,
  you can increase your odds of success.