Security is not easy. There is a multitude of vendors out on the market that offers competing products and services that are meant to keep you secure. The ever-growing threats to your organization are ongoing, and there are so many categories to look at that it becomes a daunting task. It’s easy to see why so many organizations lack the proper security measures that must be in place in organizations of all sizes.
R&B Networks can assist you in navigating and choosing your Cybersecurity Technology Stack manageable. With advice, precise information, and guidance, you’ll gain cybersecurity maturity in no time at all.
- Visibility – To be effective, organizations must know what to protect by having an up-to-date inventory of all hardware and software assets. Without this, any unreported device or unpatched software becomes your most significant liability and exposes your internal network to attack. Security teams will then assess and prioritize any discovered vulnerabilities and configuration issues, then quickly remediate based on business importance to mitigate the problems identified based on risk.
Additionally, having an overall view of network traffic and user behavior is key to identifying anomalies. Organizations must maintain proper logs and network activity to analyze further and recognizing questionable activity so that teams can act on any threat discovered.
Ensure you have full visibility for your technology stack: applications, endpoints, networks, and the cloud.
- Access Control — Through authentication and authorization, access control policies dictate who’s allowed to access company information and resources by proving a user’s identity. Together with boundary defense, segmentation, and zero-trust, an organization can control and limit access to only those individuals that should have access.
- Perimeter Defense – As more organizations move to the cloud and go full or hybrid cloud, some may make drop their guard and think that maintaining their perimeter protection is not as crucial since they’re shifting their infrastructure to the cloud. However, most traditional companies still have a headquarters location, and many have satellite offices with infrastructure and assets with employees at those locations that could inadvertently compromise your security. Equipment such as firewalls, gateways, and intrusion detection are all necessary and play a vital role in your security stack.
It’s these vital safeguards that will play a key role in rolling out a segmentation strategy to segment business groups, applications, servers, user groups, and much more. The concept of zero-trust and the adoption of it is to prevent data breaches by giving employees access to only the systems and data they need access to and is rooted in the principle of “never trust, always verify.” If any user’s account or any system is compromised, the ability to move laterally within the network is prevented. - Device Hardening — To determine if a device has been appropriately configured, you need a Vulnerability Assessment to ascertain what devices on your network need to be looked at. Remediation steps would determine if devices need to be patched, have unnecessary services and ports disabled, and configuring proper security measures such as strong passwords and strengthening file permissions.
Scans need to be an ongoing process since new devices are brought online all the time, and you must have a centralized way of managing the scans and configurations to address any newly discovered vulnerabilities. - Prevention, Detection, and Response — It’s no secret that large corporations have had data breaches every year, and those events have become headline news worldwide. The way that each breach occurred varies through methods such as hacking, social engineering, and malware. An organization must have a system in place to quickly and effectively alert you to any anomalies, analyze the threat level, and provide mitigation steps to address the issue in real-time.
Contact R&B Networks to start building out your Cybersecurity Technology Stack and address on-going threats to your organization.