cybersecurity consulting for business
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Why Cybersecurity for Business?
In order to try and answer the "why" businesses could utilize Cybersecurity in their business strategy, I've provided some research conducted recently that shows the views of both the business owner and the engineer.
RISK MITIGATION:
It’s the mechanism that protects businesses and people alike from malicious intrusion from hackers, malware, spyware, and other dangerous methods of hacking.
The role of cybersecurity will no doubt increase in the future as we continue to leverage new technologies for the storage and processing of sensitive information, and there’s no time like the present to ensure that both you and your business are secure from new and emerging threats."
Curious Where to Start?
The first requirement is a way to discover which assets are at risk—that is, out of compliance with organizational or regulatory policy. Assessing risk requires collecting information that’s scattered across diverse, often independently administered systems. It turns out that building a holistic inventory is not so easy.
A (cybersecurity) risk assessment is a comprehensive tool that allows businesses to take account of platforms and systems within their business in order to mitigate the inherent vulnerabilities that may exist within those systems.
In all but a few organizations, in all industries, security executives often have countermeasures they know they critically need but cannot get the budgets to implement, because chief financial officers want to save money, and disasters frequently result.
Brief Overview
A Clark School study at the University of Maryland is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access—every 39 seconds on average—and the non-secure usernames and passwords we use that give attackers more chance of success. At a much broader view, let’s look at just a few of the use cases for small and medium sized businesses.
· Vulnerability – Theoretically, any business is vulnerable to an attack. This vulnerability increases as a business utilizes more connected platforms.
· Risk – From a business perspective, what type of risk is the business incurring based on the vulnerability? How is risk in this particular field mitigated?
· Proactive vs Reactive – A businesses’ security posture is its first line of defense from would-be hackers. A well-equipped defense is postured to protect against an offensive attack.
· Regulatory Compliance – Businesses have an ethical and some even a regulatory obligation to protect customer data (ie. PII, PHI).
· Resiliency – It serves a business well when it can recover from the unlikely event of a cyberattack. Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) are two commonly used metrics of merit used to evaluate a businesses’ ability to not only recover, but maintain a highly level of availability of a given service.
It is therefore apparent that a business of any size, but especially those that are without the presence of a professional, to analyze, inspect, identify, and consult against any possible vulnerabilities.
A Clark School study at the University of Maryland is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access—every 39 seconds on average—and the non-secure usernames and passwords we use that give attackers more chance of success. At a much broader view, let’s look at just a few of the use cases for small and medium sized businesses.
· Vulnerability – Theoretically, any business is vulnerable to an attack. This vulnerability increases as a business utilizes more connected platforms.
· Risk – From a business perspective, what type of risk is the business incurring based on the vulnerability? How is risk in this particular field mitigated?
· Proactive vs Reactive – A businesses’ security posture is its first line of defense from would-be hackers. A well-equipped defense is postured to protect against an offensive attack.
· Regulatory Compliance – Businesses have an ethical and some even a regulatory obligation to protect customer data (ie. PII, PHI).
· Resiliency – It serves a business well when it can recover from the unlikely event of a cyberattack. Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) are two commonly used metrics of merit used to evaluate a businesses’ ability to not only recover, but maintain a highly level of availability of a given service.
It is therefore apparent that a business of any size, but especially those that are without the presence of a professional, to analyze, inspect, identify, and consult against any possible vulnerabilities.
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