As your organisation grows, so does its connectivity, and with it, its perimeter. These are the three areas we consider essential to lock down in order to secure your data and assets.
Purpose -To mitigate the risk and reach of any potential intrusion via the servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices that your organisation is connected to.
Why it’s important - These are all critical components. Capturing audit information on what is occurring on them, at any given time, can supply early identification of an attack.
To be effective, endpoint security should have 24x7 visibility of all the activity taking place on all the endpoints in order to detect any malicious activity.
New endpoint detection and response, or EDR technology, has become more capable at this. It can deliver a comprehensive assessment of the endpoint as well as providing automated responses to threats such as endpoint isolation and ransomware detection.
Enhanced endpoint security can also provide in depth analytics and forensic data.
This means that once a breach has been detected, investigators can determine how the attack occurred, where in the environment it started, which devices were impacted, and if any data has been stolen.
This valuable information can speed up the incident response and remediation.
Purpose - To protect the usability and integrity of your network.
Why it’s important - Reliable and effective network security manages all access to your network resources, while targeting threats and preventing them from gaining entry or spreading throughout your entire network.
Strong network security combines multiple layers of security measures at both the perimeter and within the network itself.
Each individual layer will have its own controls, allowing in those authorised to gain access to the network resources, while recognising and blocking cyber criminals from carrying out malicious attacks.
There are various types of network security, including access control, threat prevention, email security, web security and firewalls, to protect your employees, your data and ultimately your reputation.
Purpose - To increase the security of your cloud storage, especially that of data held in the Public Cloud.
Why it’s important - By extending your security wrap into the Cloud and cloud firewall appliances, you can monitor the performance, behaviours and events in the Cloud and be better able to react accordingly to uphold the security of your data and applications.
Cloud computing continues to transform the way organisations use, store, and share data, applications and workloads.
As ever more organisations store data and applications in the Cloud, a whole host of security threats and challenges are created.
With so much data going into the Cloud – particularly into Public Cloud services – these resources become ideal targets for hackers.
A security breach, such as account hacking or a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, can restrict access to these critical applications.
This could disable a range of different services, leave users without legitimate access and even bring your business to a halt.