Too often, cybersecurity teams have taken the approach of constructing a castle to defend their organizations and then sitting back and waiting for attackers to attempt to scale the walls.
Effective cybersecurity in today’s digital world is anything but static. The world around us is constantly evolving and changing, and the threat landscape is no exception.
At Cegura Technologies, we separate this lifecycle into four pillars:
Four Pillars to Staying Ahead of Cybersecurity Threats
Define
The definition process is the first step in the lifecycle process. Before you can improve your cybersecurity posture, you must first understand where you are starting from and what needs to be improved. This preliminary assessment examines the safeguards in place for customers and takes compliance into account.
Protect
After you’ve developed this strategy and roadmap, it’s time to implement, deploy, or transform the security technologies that will keep your organization safe. This step focuses on ensuring the security of all critical data and assets, as well as identifying and plugging all vulnerabilities across cloud, IT, OT, and IoT systems.
Safeguard
The safeguarding stage is concerned with the real-time security of your systems and devices, whereas the protect stage is concerned with the deployment or transformation of a security measure. The safeguarding phase is concerned with maintaining the current level of security. This is significant in the new world of intelligent IT.
Defend
We then proceed to the defend stage. This must be a proactive strategy. It entails checking the pulse of the world around you in addition to technically monitoring the technologies in place to ensure they are working as intended.
If you notice that something has changed in your environment – for example, switching from an office-based to a remote working environment, or your organization is now more vulnerable to cyberattacks because its role in society has changed – contact Cegura Technologies.
