Patrick Domingues

Increase Your Cyber Security Resilience because cyberattacks can come from any direction. They can paralyze an entire company.

Introduction

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, security breaches have become a fact of corporate life. Cyberattacks are accelerating at an alarming rate as hackers and their use of technology, techniques, and procedures become more sophisticated and more cunning.

How can organizations stay ahead of cyber-criminals? Can they? Can they fight back or will they forever be playing catch-up? Is it enough to just use technology or must other approaches be taken?

As the world becomes more and more digital, people are becoming increasingly concerned about cyberattacks. The current security approach is to simply protect against external hacking. But it doesn’t work. To stand resilient against threats, companies must protect against cyberattacks continually and holistically, with enterprise-wide knowledge, skills and judgment.

Cyber Security Resilience

Cyber security resilience is about being prepared to protect your company from the risk of cyberattacks. In the past, this was the security team’s job, but now it’s an issue for everyone. The best way to do this is to have a strong security plan that everyone understands and supports.

Cyberattacks can come from any direction. They can paralyze an entire company. Cyber security resilience is in the hands of every business function. It is crucial to have a team that can make rapid, confident decisions when facing cyberattacks. Cyber resilience also includes the ability to communicate well with the community and customers. The ability to write secure code is also very important.

Increase Your Cyber Security Resilience

Cyber security resilience is about the capability to handle cyber-attacks. If you want to be cyber security resilient, you must know your strengths and weaknesses, and be able to see where you are strong and weak. This means identifying what you know and don’t know, as well as what you are good at and bad at. You must also be able to assess your workforce for cyber skills. And then there’s the training! You have to inject targeted simulations and exercises that will optimize your knowledge, skills, and judgment.

1. Test your knowledge, skills, and judgment through realistic cyber simulations. This should be done across the entire workforce with minimal impact on resources.
   • By practicing with a variety of simulated crisis scenarios, you can practice your decision-making skills and prepare for the worst.
   • Having content that is tailored to the specific needs of their employees. This will enable a company to collect data on what their employees need to know about cyber security.
   • You can use proper screening techniques to show their cyber security skills and abilities, instead of relying just on their experience and education.
2. An organization must be able to easily map its cybersecurity workforce capability data and insights to accepted risk frameworks. This provides a real-time picture of cybersecurity and risk, benchmarked against others.
   • Data dashboards are a way to visualize knowledge, skills and experience. They can be used to make decisions about how your company operates.
   • MITRE | ATT&CK® is an important framework for reference that can provide insight into security coverage and potential gaps.
   • Real-time reporting is essential. With it, you can have the right information at your fingertips so you can make informed decisions quickly.
3. If you want to keep your employee’s cyber security resilient and ready to go, you need to educate them. It’s essential to equip them with the knowledge they need as they progress in their careers. The most effective way to do this is by building personalized content experiences that help people learn.
   • Build bite-sized eLearning modules that target specific roles, teams, and individuals rather than “one size fits all” content.
   • When it comes to cyber threats, security teams need to be able to explore their environments in a realistic manner.
   • Create customized crisis scenarios to keep your team’s confidence and knowledge sharp. You can use these training exercises to identify your team’s weak spots. And then you can fix them.

Cyber security resilience is critical for organizations to continually protect against, and effectively respond to, the growing number of cyberattacks. Cyber security is a single solution that enables organizations to continually exercise teams relevant to their role to get the evidence they need about where they stand, and equips them with knowledge they need. Organizations can then have confidence that their workers are knowledgeable, skilled, and capable of handling any cyber situation.

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Patrick Domingues

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