A practical and comprehensive corporate security service prevents future incidents. However, your company must deploy adequate and proactive security controls and services to ensure cyber resilience.
First and foremost, you need to ensure that all of your corporate systems and networks are free from vulnerabilities. Security weaknesses can provide porous holes for threat actors. If a vulnerability is successfully exploited, hackers can move laterally and clandestinely across your networks for months or even years without being detected.
1. Cybersecurity Audits and Risk Assessment
A security audit comprehensively evaluates and examines your organization’s IT infrastructure and policies. It aims to discover security vulnerabilities in a timely manner before attackers exploit them.
Typically, a security audit assesses security controls, detects data breaches, helps meet compliance, and recommends improvements. Based on specific needs, industry requirements, and risk factors, your enterprise may need different types of security audits, including:
- Social engineering audits
- Configuration audits
- Risk assessment audits
- Compliance audits
Likewise, risk assessment is a structured, data-driven approach used to identify, quantify, and prioritize security risks in your corporate IT environment.
2. Managed Network Security
Managed network security enables security experts to continuously monitor your systems and networks. They leverage advanced security tools to provide real-time monitoring of network traffic. After that, they analyze data to look for any suspicious patterns or signs of compromise.
3. Employee Awareness Training
Security experts believe that humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity. Cybercriminals capitalize on human factors to conduct social engineering attacks, such as phishing.
To prevent your employees from falling prey to social engineering attacks, you must initiate a periodic security awareness and training program. In addition, you should occasionally run simulated phishing campaigns to assess whether your workforce is prepared for security threats.
4. Compliance and Data Governance
Many cybersecurity regulatory standards, such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and CMMC, have been developed to help organizations stay secure against cyber threats. These standards require businesses to implement specific security controls and follow best practices.
Non-compliant organizations may face heavy penalties. For example, the GDPR imposes a fine of up to €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover. These penalties can be devastating, and the financial impact can permeate further due to reputational damage.
