Cybersecurity Incident Prevention

Cybersecurity Incident Prevention

IT security has become a pressing concern for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. Hackers constantly work to find new ways to gain access to sensitive information, and malware is only becoming more dynamic. Threats like ransomware stand to damage businesses financially and otherwise.

Doing everything possible to reduce the risk of becoming the victim of a data breach is essential for any organization seeking to safeguard its finances, productivity levels, and reputation. Your best bet is to anticipate a cyberattack before it even happens and stop hackers before they have a chance to cause any harm to your organization with cybersecurity incident prevention services and solutions.

There are plenty of solutions and strategies that work to proactively safeguard against hacking and data breaches. Here are just some of the steps your business can take and solutions you can implement to protect against ever-changing cybersecurity threats.

• Routine security assessments.

  It's vital to continually evaluate your security posture and identify any points of vulnerability hackers could potentially exploit. Completing our security risk assessment questionnaire is a great first step.

• Secure access service edge (SASE) with zero-trust architecture.

  Ensure remote workers can securely access vital apps and resources from any location with our Office Anywhere offering.

• Regular security practice reviews.

  The IT security threat landscape changes every day, so it's important to routinely review your practices and policies to ensure they're up-to-date. This includes conducting a security audit on at least an annual basis.

• Employee awareness training.

  User errors like clicking on links in malicious emails frequently lead to data breaches, so educating employees on best security practices is essential for businesses looking to prevent hacking incidents. You'll need to hold training sessions on an ongoing basis to keep everyone up to speed on evolving threats.

• Next-generation firewall.

  For organizations looking to combat constantly changing cybersecurity threats with cutting edge technology, a next-generation firewall offers an advanced intrusion prevention system, network analysis abilities that can spot weaknesses, malware protection, and more.

• Spam filter.

  Cyber criminals commonly create messages that imitate legitimate emails (a practice known as "phishing") to trick recipients into opening the door to sensitive data. If just one employee falls for this ploy and clicks on a malicious link or downloads a suspicious attachment, your whole organization will be in trouble. A hosted spam solution will block spam and phishing attempts before they even reach your employees' inboxes.

• Web filtering, content filtering, DNS filtering, and unified threat management (UTM).

  All of these solutions stop users from going to websites that could infect their PCs with malware. Although a company's internal firewall might have filtering and UTM abilities, a hosted DNS solution can serve as a valuable second line of defense in case the firewall functions don't catch every threat.

• Network and endpoint managed detection and response (MDR).

  Go beyond basic endpoint and network security measures and proactively combat evolving malware with MDR technology.

These are just some of the tactics, services, and solutions that can prevent hackers and malware from gaining access to your company's network and sensitive data. Visit our Managed Cybersecurity Services page or contact our security analysts for more information about maintaining the best possible security posture.