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With the fast advancement of technology, the importance of a robust and comprehensive cybersecurity plan cannot be overstated.
With the increasing number and sophistication of cyber threats, organizations especially Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) must prioritize the protection of their data and stop a substantial financial loss. To succeed in this endeavor, a successful cybersecurity plan is essential.
Christian Tee-Bautista, Senior Presales Consultant of Trend Micro shares three key components that a CISO can do for an effective cybersecurity plan during the VST ECS CXO Tech Summit 2023 last October 18.
Christian Tee-Bautista, Senior Presales Consultant of Trend Micro
1. A Strong Security Posture
Security posture is important measure to an organization’s overall approach and readiness in terms of cybersecurity and data protection. It can help organization to detect, respond and preventing security breaches or incoming threats.
Unsurprisingly, there isn’t a single metric for gauging the “security posture.” Instead, it’s a composite evaluation that considers the quantity and severity of vulnerabilities and threats throughout your IT landscape, as well as the swiftness of your responses to them.
When viewing regarding significant threats and vulnerabilities CISO is frequently confined to the activities occurring exclusively on endpoints, such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.
This is where Trend Micro’s XDR a security solution with an extended detection and response capabilities can be a great value for a CISOs’ cybersecurity plan. It offers a multiple layer of security that allows for faster detection of threat and vulnerabilities across endpoints such as email, servers, cloud workloads and networks.
It uses AI-based analytics to check all the activities and telemetry across your organization’s network, cloud, and endpoint.
Your team can get an insight into the attack from a centralized dashboard integrating all the security solutions and offers automated analysis and response. Your team will enjoy a complete visibility in real-time understanding the attacker’s techniques, tactics and procedures.
2. Appropriate Network Access For All Users
Many companies frequently lack appropriate authentication and authorization procedures for their employees. This is where CISOs must closely monitor the ratio of privileged to non-privileged users to mitigate insider threats and limit opportunities for malicious hackers.
CISO can still adopt the principle of least privilege which grants users only necessary permissions needed to perform their job. This is further evolve to a much better approach with a zero trust security, which validates users and devices before network access and continually monitors their status.
Zero trust security is one effective strategy that CISOs can use, by employing it you have essential visibility and immediately reduce potential data breaches. It also provides granular access control over cloud and container environments. Lessens the impact and severity of successful cyberattacks, reducing cleanup time and cost.
Trend Micro offers Vision One a state-of-the-art, cloud-native cybersecurity platform that redefines digital asset protection for a holistic approach to threat detection and response. It grants CISO team an unparalleled visibility and control across hybrid cloud environments that integrates advanced security features, enhancing the efficiency of security teams in combating modern threats. It combines real-time threat intelligence with proactive threat hunting, ensuring both threat detection and comprehensive response. Trend Micro Vision One empowers organizations to safeguard their digital ecosystems effectively.
3. Regular cybersecurity awareness training for all
According to a Standford research, 88% of data breaches are mostly caused by human error and the mistake of your people’s organization is what any malicious hackers are waiting to exploit.
In lieu of this usual problem, Trend Micro is advising CISOs to consistently train and educate the companies staff and even top executives. Ensure that every individual in your organization receives proper cybersecurity training and information.
CISOs should try to develop any organizations to be a cybersecurity-minded culture, everyone should be active and contribute to the company’s security.
CISO can look up Trend Micro’s free phishing awareness service, it is a completely free phishing simulation service that tests the security awareness of employees against social engineering, and educates them to quickly and efficiently spot attacks. Phish Insight lets you test what could happen to your organization before the hackers try.
CISOs must adopt a cybersecurity plan in today’s evolving digital landscape to safely guard sensitive data, maintain the trust of its customers and partners, and ensure the overall resilience and continuity of business operations. Trend Micro offers a range of products to assist CISOs in enhancing their cybersecurity strategies.
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