With ransomware expected to cause more than €30 billion in damage worldwide this year and one business attacked every 2 seconds by 2031, the need to strengthen your cyber resilience is more urgent than ever.
Faced with this growing threat, it is crucial to understand why it is becoming more difficult each year to contain and stop these attacks.
Companies seeking to develop their cyber resilience face many challenges, including data loss, business interruptions, customer loss, and many others.
To become cyber resilient, it is essential to master the fundamentals, particularly when it comes to data. It is crucial to know where your sensitive data is located, who has access to it, and what risks are associated with it. By placing data at the center of your cybersecurity strategy, your company can reduce risks, boost agility, and improve its resilience.
That's why we've compiled six best practices for cyber resilience for you:
Keep a close eye on your security posture despite budget and resource challenges. To prevent cyberattacks, it is necessary not only to implement the cybersecurity training and awareness recommended by NIST, but also to put in place access controls and monitoring systems. This also requires complete visibility of resources and exposures, detailed context on potential security threats, and clear metrics for objectively measuring cyber risk.
Companies that can anticipate cyberattacks and communicate these risks to facilitate decision-making will be better able to defend themselves against emerging threats. Data presents a particular challenge because it is the most dynamic resource of all. Sensitive data is growing and proliferating rapidly, and companies need to know where it is located. what their classification is, how they can be accessed, etc., in order to understand the risks they face and how to protect them.
Adopt an architecture based on the principles of Zero Trust. Best practices for digital enterprises require an architecture based on the principles of Zero Trust (in particular, never trust and always verify, as well as the principle of least privilege) so that you know who is accessing what information and when. Any compromise of sensitive information damages the reputation and advantage of businesses, as well as the agility and situational awareness of public authorities.
That is why it is now essential to protect every identity (human or machine) across as many devices and environments as possible. A digital identity is all the information relating to a person, company, or electronic device that exists online. The digital transformation of many companies has led to the emergence of a multitude of identities with unprecedented access to data. The number of identities with privileged access and control across multiple devices now far exceeds the number of users. Your security team must therefore better protect a larger attack surface. In addition, managing the identity security of your data assets using multiple existing tools creates complexity and vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Combining comprehensive role-based access controls with “never trust, always verify” policies helps better protect your business from ransomware and insider threats.
Develop intelligence by regularly testing incident response plans. NIST recommends regularly testing and updating incident response plans and conducting regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. This is essential because detecting malware early allows you to confidently refuse to pay a ransom. Beyond these tips for production systems, you can learn about cybersecurity risks and blind spots in your environment. production by launching
Automated on-demand analysis of production data and backup snapshots to detect known vulnerabilities. These analyses also make it easy to assess your risk posture and meet strict security and compliance requirements without impacting your production environment. Analyze production and backup snapshots to assess their health and recoverability. Verify backups to ensure that no known vulnerabilities are reintroduced into the production environment during restores. All of these operations allow you to develop intelligence and gain a comprehensive view of all cybersecurity risks in your production environment. This enables you to remediate them before a malicious actor exploits them..
faites de la cyber-résilience un sport d’équipe en exploitant une architecture moderne. Resilience requires preparation, responsiveness, tenacity, and adaptability. In today's connected world, security leaders must leverage an architecture and processes that encompass on-premises, cloud, and on-demand (SaaS) environments, while implementing security processes focused on business continuity.
Les programmes SecOps must rely on solutions and processes that prevent hostile actions where possible, but also detect and respond to them when prevention is not possible. To demonstrate resilience, attackers must be stopped before they achieve their objectives in a target environment. Organizations must fully understand the threat landscape and attack vectors to support their resilience efforts. To do this, they need detailed information about threats and attack surfaces, provided that this information is specific to the organization and not generalized. Finally, the security program must result in processes that support business resilience. It is essential to plan for incident response and establish partnerships to ensure the viability of the business and your security program.
Use a modern data management and security platform to combat ransomware attacks. Scalability and compatibility are additional factors in combating ransomware attacks. The cyberrésilience requires collaboration. It is therefore important to leverage an extensible, modern security and data management platform with a rich API and API-first architecture that works across multiple sites and covers the widest possible range of data sources.
Consolidating multiple data management functions on a single platform allows you to simplify your operations. Instead of copying and moving data, you also have a solution that allows you to reuse data on-site by providing value-added applications for everyday and more complex tasks (e.g., virus scanning, data masking, file audit log analysis, and data classification). In addition, a single, extensible platform allows you to reduce your data footprint and the attack surface available to ransomware.
Integrate backup infrastructure into your security operations to quickly restore operational availability in the event of a breach. The complexities associated with data security and management cannot be solved alone, in particuliert in the event of a breach. Restore operational availability as quickly as possible (within the recovery time and point objectives). Recovery [RTO/RPO]) requires an integrated approach in which backup is not siloed, but is an integral part of the infrastructure and security operations.
Companies that invest in security and data management will benefit from tightly integrated solutions that cover the entire spectrum of security frameworks. One of the most popular is the SANS Institute's Incident Response Cycle, or PICERL:
• Preparation (Preparation) – Assessments, plans, training, identity management, etc.
• Identification – Monitoring awareness, early detection, etc.
• Containment (Maîtrise) – Notification, sauvegardes, preuves, etc.
• Eradication (Éradication) – Restaurations, analyse de cause racine, suppression du programme malveillant etc.
• Recovery (Récupération) – Analyse des vulnérabilités, reprise des opérations, base de référence, etc.
• Lessons Learned (Enseignements tirés) – Création de rapports, mises à jour des procédures, etc.
Restez vigilant et protégé votre organisation!
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