In spite of your best efforts to prevent compromise and downtime, they will occur. Thus, you must not only plan to prevent problems, you must also plan to handle failures when they occur. This type of planning is known as incident management.
Read moreWhen designing and deploying security solutions, a thorough understanding of what you have to protect is important as well as understanding the vulnerabilities within and around your assets and infrastructure. A threat analysis considers the range of currently known threats and the potential and likelihood that an attack will be attempted against your organization to help define what’s coming at you.
Read moreIn order to protect your assets, you must first know what they are, where they are, and how they are tracked and managed. Are they secured? Who has access to them? Who tracks and manages them? Do you have functional procedures in place to respond and recover from a security breach quickly? Do you have a process improvement cycle to prevent re-occurrence?
Read moreIdentifying areas of security within a network requires a 24/7 strategy to keep botnets and cyber criminals out of your network. Ultimately, cyber attacks can bring businesses to a grinding halt, creating untold damage to network architecture, operational efficiencies, and the all-important, bottom line. The best way to deal with these threats is to maintain a trained, knowledgeable staff that understands security risks and vulnerabilities. This trained staff should be looking at several areas of the infrastructure.
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