The Big Rocks of Cybersecurity Strategy:
As a seasoned cybersecurity leader, I’ve traveled 200,000 miles a year, engaging with CIOs and CISOs worldwide. One common theme resonates with them all: focusing on the “big rocks” of cybersecurity. In this post, we’ll explore what these big rocks are and how Proficio’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services can help you prioritize your cybersecurity efforts.
1. The Map: Asset Visibility and Prioritization
Many organizations lack a clear map of their business-critical assets, zones, and users. With Proficio’s MDR services, you can locate, categorize, and prioritize your assets, defining risk and implementing defense in depth, threat monitoring, and threat response. The NIST Framework provides a set of activities to achieve cybersecurity outcomes, including asset management and vulnerability management.
2. The Holes: Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Patching the holes that let in the most water is crucial in cybersecurity. Proficio’s MDR services help you apply a risk-based approach to vulnerability management, prioritizing the systems most critical, exposed, and exploitable. Perform a gap analysis of your security controls aligned to your asset map and security best practices defined in frameworks or regulations.
3. Top-Level View: Threat Visibility and Monitoring
Good threat visibility is essential for cybersecurity effectiveness. Proficio’s MDR services provide enriched log and threat data, active monitoring, and actionable alerting combined with orchestrated and automated threat response. Our comprehensive dashboard offers continuous business intelligence for IT security, giving you a top-level view of your security posture and relative risk.
4. The Plan: Comprehensive Response and Continuous Improvement
Having a plan for success is critical in cybersecurity. Proficio’s MDR services help you tune your visibility to actionable threats, use your asset map, patch the right holes, and gain a high-level view of your security posture. Our comprehensive response plan includes detection, acknowledgment, triage, containment, resolution, and remediation.
By focusing on these big rocks, you’ll be equipped to implement a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. Contact us at info@proficio.com to learn more about how our MDR services can help executives achieve their cybersecurity objectives.
