SURVIVING OR THRIVING IN THE CYBERTHREAT LANDSCAPE?

Mindset and Attitude

“Bring it On!” is the catch phrase we’d like to say with confidence, standing on solid ground. It is the consensus that it’s wiser to steer far enough from the edge of a cliff to avoid going over the side rather than demonstrating just how close you can get to it without negative repercussions!

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Anyone who has lived through early onset of data breach precautions will remember a time when the boss showed up at your desk and said, “You’re doing a great job of keeping our computers running. Now we’d like you to step up securing the information we have.  We really don’t have a budget this year for antivirus software so please do what you can to protect us.”

At that moment, you knew you didn’t stand a chance.

In those early days, without antivirus software and offsite backups and without capacity to oversee the threat landscape because of the workload you already juggled to keep systems working, you knew it was just a matter of time before a colleague’s inadvertent error or a bad actor trolling to gain access to your assets would break in and ruin your perfectly good year! Guess what? You are exactly in the same place today as you were a couple of decades ago, if you’re asked to secure the perimeters without advanced technology and career expertise that matches this age’s most advanced cyberattacks the world has seen! Without Artificial Intelligence technology and your heavyweight cybersecurity partner monitoring, alerting, and mitigating around the clock, you’ve been given a “mission impossible” when cybercriminals fire at the target on your back!

Not many CEOs would intentionally set their people up to fail but that’s what is going on when management hands a strategic imperative to the CISO, CTO, CIO, or IT Manager to “Heighten our cybersecurity!” unless they add, “And do it arm-in-arm with a qualified MSSP. We’ll make place in the budget!”

Solution

Safeguarding your information assets – the data you maintain for all your customers, vendors, employees, and partners – is a critical task for every organization in 2021, and a necessary budget item.

A modern approach to cybersecurity is a must to maintain your competitive edge and your reputation.  Management meetings need to make room for relevant security conversations which, if left to chance, can mean operations are blindsided for periods of time that are much longer than their Disaster Recovery or Incident Response plan anticipates.  Responsible IT heads are having these timely discussions with C-Suite colleagues to illustrate how everything the team has achieved can be taken down in minutes if network systems are not monitored properly and incoming attacks mitigated swiftly.

Leverage your cybersecurity partner’s expertise on every endpoint and with all tenets you have put into place. There is no way IT teams can add such a daunting task to their already packed ‘to do’ lists and they don’t have the career training that allows them to recognize that part of the whole they’re being asked to manage.

Thrive; don’t play ‘Survivor’. That makes for a fun reality show but not a business plan that will keep you and your company on the rails and moving full steam ahead!

Data-Guard 365 is an MSSP firm headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in Chicago, Atlanta, and other strategic locations across the globe. The company is a one-of-a-kind business partner whose people, processes, and technology provide armored cybersecurity for a price point that pays for itself.

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