The cyber security landscape has changed dramatically, and the pace of change shows no signs of slowing. Hacking has become an industrial enterprise, there’s been a rapid surge in ransomware, and both individual’s businesses are daily targets.
Despite all the risks, robust and cost-effective cyber security is possible. It not only makes your business safer, but delivers key competitive advantages through agility, customer trust and secure remote working.
Cyber security is no longer a purely defensive mechanism. It’s a key component of the digital transformation process that is crucial for enterprises to succeed.
With a strong cyber security strategy, organisations can realise the full benefits of adopting the cloud, enabling their teams to work and collaborate remotely, and engaging securely and safely with customers online.
It can help businesses mitigate risk, identify weaknesses, contain threats, support compliance and ultimately have a positive impact on the bottom line. It is more than peace of mind; it is a strategic ethos vital in progressing any modern-day business towards its long-term goals.
It is easy for internal IT teams to feel overwhelmed by the ever-shifting challenges of keeping your business cyber secure. The proliferation of cloud and mobile technologies has both added to the complexity and created a domino-effect of security risks.
The news is rarely without another story of a major organisation being hacked, with data breaches affecting millions of customers.
Cybercrime now costs UK businesses more than £30bn per year, with some global estimates as high as $6 trillion by the early 2020s.
In 2018, PwC estimated that the annual average cost to UK firms that fell victim to a cyber-attack was £857,000 - and rising!
It’s not just the immediate impact of a breach that organisations have to worry about. Under GDPR legislation, fines can be significantly larger than they used to be and the broader impact on brand and reputation is often even more damaging.
As a result of these challenges spending on security technology has seen a huge upsurge in recent years, which is expected to continue well into the next decade. Often, however, organisations find that just throwing money at the problem fails to fix it.
If there isn’t sufficient technical expertise in the organisation, or if there aren’t proper internal governance processes in place, no-one will know what to do with or how to respond to the information, reports and alerts that these systems can provide.
Firewall logs will tell you what got blocked, but how do you find out what got through?
How do you fix a problem you can’t see? The people & process challenges in security are easily as significant as the technical ones, and sometimes even harder to fix.
Enterprises can find that they often don’t get true value from their investments in cyber-security technologies. Either they struggle to maintain the internal skills required to manage the technology effectively, or they cannot integrate siloed reporting from one system with all the others, resulting in a fragmented view of current status.
This demonstrates that with security the people & process side is every bit as important as the technology side, if not more so.
Capita is the ideal partner to provide a holistic security solution that addresses both technology and personnel, with the advisory capability to ensure that the solution is properly put together to meet each customer’s specific needs: We ensure our customers can protect their network, staff and customer data online, and significantly reduce the threat posed by cyber-attacks.
Just as importantly, we help our customers plan for when unexpected digital or physical events do happen, giving them the resilience to keep their businesses on their feet and enabling them to recover rapidly.
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We offer an exhaustive testing capability
We support our cyber security portfolio with a wide range of penetration testing, software testing, compliance, governance and threat analysis services, that can help you find the holes in your current setup and fix them.
We work quickly
We provide the right solution to reduce risk, in line with our client’s agenda to ensure faster, tighter fixes. We don’t supply what you don’t need! Our teams are exceptionally experienced at searching for security gaps, and work with market-leading tools designed and optimised to identify them rapidly.
We deliver a complete solution
We offer end-to-end service capability that can address all aspects of technology, but also the process and strategic elements behind them.
We deliver a complete solution. We offer end-to-end service capability to protect networks, computers, programmes and data from attack, and do so with the best practices and latest technologies. We also consult with clients to assist them with governance, risk and compliance assurance.
And those solutions are highly cost effective…
Thanks to our extensive range of partner relationships and our ability to tune services to the specific priorities of your business, making every event per second count.
We approach hacking as a global issue
Through our relationship with leading security vendors like IBM, Cisco, Palo Alto, and others we have access to global research data on the latest emerging threats. This data is drawn from the analysis of billions of security events each day from systems and endpoints across the globe.
We offer dedicated IoT security
Our cloud-based security solutions enable you extend your perimeter to those devices that are most vulnerable.
Our teams operate at the highest level
Team members hold SC clearance and a large number also hold DV level security clearance. This enables us to conduct gap analysis and provide solutions to highly complex, secure Government departments and clients.
And we can bring your own teams up to speed
We can help train your IT team to be more effective in the fight against cybercrime. For your staff, we can run awareness courses to ensure they fully understand the risks and take action to keep your business, its customers and its future, secure.
We help you to address the key questions relating to security that all organisations face these days. Issues such as:
Nothing can ever be entirely secure, and sometimes too much security can inhibit business efficiency, but too many organisations are still in the dark about where they really stand. Capita can help you to ensure that you understand your current security posture, and whether it is consistent with your overall appetite for risk as an organisation.
We can provide basic guidance in line with simple baselines like the NCSC Cyber essentials, or more advanced guidance around more demanding frameworks like NIST or ISO27001. We can also provide more specific compliance guidance in areas like GDPR or PCI-DSS if needed.
The Regulatory regime is becoming stricter and more punitive. GDPR can result in significant fines for organisations that do not take adequate measures to protect their customers personal data. But when assets can reside in the cloud or in a hybrid environment it can be hard to determine where the perimeter even is, let alone how to secure it. Capita can provide security solutions that embrace a variety of different environments so whether you are in the cloud, on-prem, r running a hybrid environment we can help ensure that your data is secure, wherever it is.
Whether via the conscious exploitation of an insider threat or via innocent accidental malware infection, users are one of the bigger threats to security. They need to be trusted to some extent to do their jobs, but this also makes them targets, and a source of risk. So, you must be able to embrace new trends like cloud apps and Bring Your own Device (BYOPD) whilst still protecting your users from phishing, fake websites and malware attacks that can compromise their devices and user accounts. Capita can help you understand how to achieve this balance with a technology-agnostic approach geared to finding the right solutions for your business.
