NETWORK SECURITY

Proactive Security is Greater than Reactive Security

Security touches everything you do. It is interwoven into every layer of your network from policy and processes to software and hardware to educational practices and training. Buzzwords from news headlines, like malware, ransomware, and phishing scams can desensitize the importance of cybersecurity, but it doesn’t lessen the threat.

Understanding the cost of reputation versus the cost of implementation can determine how security is weighed in your business strategy.

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PROTECT AGAINST CYBER THREATS

You Have to Start Somewhere to Secure Your Network

The best place to start is a security assessment. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses within your network will give you a great foundation to begin building and chipping away at your biggest threat to your smallest threat.

Security falls into 3 basic scenarios.

Hacked: Your firewall was breached after a malicious event.
Proactivity: Preventing a cyberattack before it happens is a priority.
Insurance: To qualify for cyber insurance, you need security technology.

Of the 3 categories, a proactive approach offers the lowest budget, whereas a reactive response (post-hack) will require the highest budget—9 times out of 10.

When your network is not flashing red from a virus or DDoS attack, cooler minds will prevail. You take your time implementing security measures and this helps to lower the overall spend. Downtime is expensive and recovery time is expensive. It’s a lose-lose situation.

The upfront investment in a business continuity plan or disaster recovery plan can cut both of those expenditures in half.

One overarching challenge SMBs and service providers face is the cost associated with a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This position boils down to following best practices and maintaining security awareness, but it is difficult to retain the talent. A virtual CISO (or vCISO) gives you a team-based level of coverage.

No matter how you spin it, the implementation strategy will occur, either before the fact or after the fact with angry subscribers. Customers expect secure connectivity, and it has become implied that you are responsible for their data. Security is no longer just an option, it is required.

Put your free cash to work preventing and mitigating a problem without your subscribers ever knowing there was an issue, instead of writing big checks during crisis mode.

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Perimeter Security

Distributed firewalls, micro-segmentation, packet inspection, and network flow analytics are the standard for protecting your data. Perimeter security is the first step in keeping your enterprise safe as remote access to applications is a necessity within an enterprise infrastructure of any size.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

The limited security of a simple username and password will not protect your users and applications from threats, so an MFA is a layered approach to secure you data. This point of validation requires two or more credentials to verify a user’s identity.

Security Mobility Client

Secure access to resources and applications needs to be streamlined and hassle-free for your users. Manage and deployment endpoint security agents to keep your network safe with increased visibility into user behavior and application usage.

DNS Security

Expand your DNS protection to achieve greater threat coverage and disrupt DNS-based attacks. A second layer of breach protection and visibility allows you to block threats, leverage machine learning, and shorten the incident response window and investigation.

Endpoint Protection

Protect internet-connected devices (i.e. endpoints) from malicious threats and cyberattacks by protecting the entire business network. Endpoint protection is the literal front line of securing your information and data from user credentials to software updates to preventing sandboxing threats.

Network Access Control (NAC)

Take control of your private network by implementing policy enforcement in one fell swoop. To strengthen your network security infrastructure, you must have visibility, access control (i.e. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) solutions), and compliance capabilities to scale as you grow. NAC allows you to keep authorized users in and online, and unauthorized users out.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

This security event correlation system gives you access to disparate data platforms of security. The SIEM dashboard will help aggregate incoming data, i.e. notifications and rules to alert you of system changes on your network.

Virtual CISO (vCISO)

Simplify your information security with a top-tier security analyst who has experience building security programs to meet business objectives and show measurable improvement to your security posture. A virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) will make the difference in your security strategy.

Blue Team

Outsource a team of security experts to eliminate cybersecurity risks and protect against future cyber threats. Focus on risk elimination and cyber safety with full-stack vulnerability remediation services, 24/7 support escalation, a dedicated Customer Success Representative, executive-level advisory services, and more.

Incident Response

Find the threat, mitigate the cyberattack, contain the damage, and identify the root cause of the security breach—whether it is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, ransomware, malware, etc. This organized approach and rapid response to a breach is critical to protect your network, identify the cause, and reduce the risk of future incidents and cyber threats.

Information Security Risk Assessment

Apply capacity planning to determine where over-saturation on the network is occurring and why it is happening. Additionally, perform risk analysis to identify and rank problem areas to promote data-driven decisions during business planning.

Vulnerability Assessment

Discover critical vulnerabilities and assess risk throughout your infrastructure within this network assessment. Frequent scans help identify operating system gaps, third party application flaws, and configuration errors that hackers can exploit to infiltrate your circuits.

The Plan

3-steps will get you closer to an optimized network that not only improves your visibility but reduces your costs.

Schedule a Consultation.

Talk it out! Meet up with an expert who understands your industry, your pain points, and knows the next steps to take toward achieving success.

Develop a Plan.

Let’s do this! Work to improve, optimize, and enhance network health with a sound plan.

Optimize Your Network.

Life just got much easier. Reduced stress and increased visibility of your network will create a productive, exciting environment for your employees and technicians.

Be Proactive About Your Security

Remember, being proactive with your security practices and policies will save your company time, money, and save your reputation in the long run. Security assessments are the best place to start. The evaluation provides a great platform to begin from and build at your own pace.

Investing in cybersecurity is good for your company, good for the stakeholders of your company, great for your subscribers, and important for the internet at large. It’s all about being a part of the greater good.

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