Ensuring that your business is Cyber-Secure has never been more important. According to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), over the past year 7.7m organisations in the UK were subjected to a cyber-crime. This accounts for half of all UK businesses.

The number of attacks continues to increase and the threat landscape continues to evolve. Attacks are becoming more targeted, complex, and sophisticated. AI driven security operations are playing a key role in identifying and isolating emerging cyber threats, alerting Security Operations Centre analysts of potential suspicious activity on the network. 

Keeping users, devices and applications secure is proving to be a real challenge for IT teams. There are a number of steps you can take to protect your business.

Cyber Essentials is a Government backed scheme that certifies your organisation has the necessary controls in place to protect your business against cyber-attacks.

Being Cyber Essentials certified means that the organisation has secure configuration, user access control, malware protection, security update management, and firewall measures in place, helping you to protect your data, safeguarding you and your customers.

You can find out more about Cyber Essentials here: www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview

Plan ahead

If your business is the victim of a cyber-attack, it's important that you have a defined procedure and Response Plan in place that can help you to quickly detect and isolate existing threats in your network and speed up the recovery process.

Training

With cyber threats becoming more innovative, it’s important that your team is aware of and has received the necessary training on the latest malware, phishing, spoofing, ransomware and password cyber-attacks.

Ensure your firewall is up to date

It’s important that your firewall is kept up to date to ensure that your business has the required protection from evolving cyber threats.  A managed next generation firewall (NGFW) provides enhanced threat detection and protection for your cloud infrastructure– crucial with phishing and ransomware attacks on the rise.    

Safeguard your infrastructure with a Security Service Edge (SSE)

An SSE provides security solutions managed via the cloud and protects users, devices and applications, providing access control, threat protection, data security and security monitoring. Providing detailed insight into your network traffic, it allows you to effectively identify and manage cyber threats.

SSE provides security services like a Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), and Zero Trust NetworkAccess (ZTNA) to protect against various threats.

A zero-trust network access security product works on a never trust, always verify access policy. This approach checks and authenticates user identities, locations and devices before access is granted to applications and services.

Combine network connectivity and security with a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)          

SASE architecture combines network connectivity (SD-WAN) with cloud security (SSE) in one platform. It extends the network infrastructure outside your organisation, so ideal for remote working teams. SASE’s multiple point security solution restricts access by user, device and application, crucial for identifying and managing security issues caused by shadow IT.

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