The concept of business and marketing has seen a tremendous change for a few years. Business continuity meant protecting your company in times of crisis. However, it is about recovering from large scale cyberattacks as quickly as possible in the present times. These threats can include malware, phishing emails, DDoS attacks, ransomware, etc.
In recent times, there has been a rapid change in the field of cybersecurity too. It has now become a vital part of an organization's business continuity, in protecting employee data, intellectual property, operational plans, R&D, etc. Due to this, a question arises of 'how corporate and IT experts can work hand in hand' to protect an organization and promote its business.
To achieve these goals, a simple five steps method, if followed, can ensure your organization's cybersecurity and prevent it from threats and cyberattacks.
1. Prioritize: Threat intelligence should be acquired, and it should be prioritized to formulate a defense plan. Keep in mind that simulation attacks won't be much helpful as real-time attacks. Simulated attacks won't tell you the real strengths and weaknesses. This information helps experts identify the threats they must be more careful about and build a counter-testing testing plan.
2. Measure: You should examine whether the measures you are taking to protect your business is helpful. If not, your preventive actions are ineffective. The plan should include analyzing threat adversaries and technical attacks, and how your people respond to it.
3. Optimize: This step involves analyzing the gaps or barriers that you identified in the measuring stage. An effective business means overcoming these gaps and barriers. When the controls are optimized, the testing can then provide more measurable results that will make your security more robust.
4. Rationalize: Is your investment in security measures proving beneficial or just a waste of money. With the help of testing data acquired after optimizing controls, the experts now know where to cut costs and invest more. It allows a business to save money while keeping the risk factor under control.
5. Monitor: The final and most crucial step involves keeping a constant eye on changing the IT environment trends. There might come new challenges that your company might have to face; therefore, there should be a continuous evaluation of potential threats that might impact your business.
