Protecting Your Enterprise: Essential Cybersecurity Best Practices
Today, businesses face new challenges and risks every hour of the day, especially due to the wide-spread digitalization of the world. Every time an enterprise device is connected to the internet, there is a possibility of some bad actor menacing its IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, cyber criminals are making “big bucks” out of exploiting businesses, and that too, on an international level. The only way out for businesses is to have a robust cybersecurity plan in place, to protect their digital assets.
Strong Cybersecurity Governance
Presently, it has become a “need of the hour” for businesses to have appropriate cybersecurity governance and a risk management program, developed in accordance with their requirements.
Enterprises’ C-suite executives should look at cybersecurity risks with the same lens, as they tend to see other significant business risks. For this, businesses can adopt the following-mentioned steps to effectively monitor and manage their cybersecurity posture.
1. Establish organizational awareness to effectively manage cybersecurity risks that might harm enterprise systems, individuals, assets or data.
2. Develop and implement suitable safeguards to get un-interrupted delivery of mission critical services.
3. Implement effective measures to detect cybersecurity incidents, as soon as possible.
4. Devise robust cyber security mechanisms to respond promptly to any detected cybersecurity incidents or anomalies.
5. Maintain resilience and restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity incident.
6. Develop and implement appropriate Disaster Recovery (DR) plans, while taking into account the risk appetite of the enterprise as a whole.
Cybersecurity Best Practices
Today, no business is fully immune from cybersecurity threats. However, the key differentiating factor that can set your business apart from others is the adoption of the following-mentioned best practices to protect against malicious software and external threats.
1. Firewalls, available in both software and hardware form, serve to safeguard a system against intrusion, thus acting as the first line of defense.
2. Malware and spyware protection, as well as web proxy solutions, provide defense against harmful and malicious code. This also includes pop-ups, which could steal sensitive information.
3. Anti-spam software shields email accounts from excessive junk mail, which could potentially contain malware or ransomware.
4. Anti-phishing software can be used to defend users from visiting websites that aim to trick them into providing personally identifiable or sensitive information for fraudulent purposes.
5. Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) will ensure that potential risks are kept in check, by blocking un-authorized access to sensitive data and digital assets.
Despite the serious threat posed to their systems, many business leaders are failing to take proactive measures to mitigate cybersecurity risks. As executives strategize their business plans for the upcoming year, it is critical that they prioritize cybersecurity as more than just a “nice-thing-to-have”. On the contrary, safeguarding against cybersecurity threats should be deemed an imperative priority for businesses.
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