Incident Response is key. After you have set up the wall of defense, and it is penetrated, you have to be the one armed to the teeth with weapons for a response, reporting, and remediation. After 10 years of honed in focus on prevention, and day to day analysts inundated with alerts, the industry is finally beginning to rely on next-generation incident response platforms capable of building actionable threat storyline, true alert prioritization and powerful case management. Developing a consistent strategy among your staff and being able to report on the actions taken to remediate the most important alerts is essential.

1. CyberSecurity Strategy
For Defendable ROI

2. Introduction
In order to justify your company’s investment into a comprehensive next-
generation cybersecurity strategy, you must be able to prove that keeping up
with the latest industry trends and tools is not only a responsible security
posture but that it provides a justifiable ROI.

3. Cyber Security Strategies
Consider this: the industry has been providing clients with defense-oriented
solutions for the greater part of a decade now, and yet breaches still occur.
Many solutions are on their way out or have become obsolete on their own,
and it is becoming standard to use a multi-faceted, orchestrated approach with
cybersecurity strategies.

4. Bulkheads of Cybersecurity Strategy
Building a plan predicated on prevention, detection, and response (our main
emphasis), is already the new trend. With so many cyber attacks happening to
major companies and entities over the past year, solidifying a strategy is more
important than ever. With that in mind, and accepting trends in attacks, let’s
discuss the 3 bulkheads of a cybersecurity strategy.
● Prevention
● Detection
● Response

5. Prevention
It is easier said than done, but it is still nice to imagine. Even so, you can
imagine the multitudes of organizations that regret not taking extra precaution
vis a vis preventative measures. As an initial step, a simple education for your
employees goes a long way. A lot of these attacks upon employees happen
initially through phishing emails, simply because an employee clicks a
malicious link left in communication, with little understanding of potential
risks. As a matter of fact, your employees can oftentimes be the proverbial
front line against potential threats. This falls under the category of a holistic
approach to cybersecurity strategies, and securing weak links can become a
defensible mandate over your overall security culture.

6. Risk Detection
Risk detection serves as a major facet in any legitimate cybersecurity strategy.
In this step, you are building your theoretical wall that will minimize
penetration. Some of the best practices to help detect risks includes:
Identifying and documenting asset vulnerabilities, internal and external
threats, acquiring threat and vulnerability information from external sources,
identifying potential business impacts and likelihoods, determining enterprise
risk by reviewing threats and identifying and prioritizing risk responses. Only
when you have a realistic viewpoint of where your vulnerabilities reside will
you be able to rebuild your new detection strategy.

7. Incident Response
Incident Response is key. After you have set up the wall of defense, and it is
penetrated, you have to be the one armed to the teeth with weapons for a
response, reporting, and remediation. After 10 years of honed in focus on
prevention, and day to day analysts inundated with alerts, the industry is
finally beginning to rely on next-generation incident response platforms
capable of building actionable threat storyline, true alert prioritization and
powerful case management. Developing a consistent strategy among your staff
and being able to report on the actions taken to remediate the most important
alerts is essential.

8. Conclusion
With so many new methods and angles of attack out in the internet ether, it is
difficult to know when your company’s information is fully protected. But,
with a coherent, sound cybersecurity strategy, you can decrease the odds of
vulnerability. By finding your current system’s vulnerabilities, assessing other
potential risks, and security orchestrating your existing security tools to
maximize visibility, you are strategizing your success and guaranteeing a
profitable ROI. Keeping costs to a minimum is key in any industry and
certainly, in security operations centers across the globe, but by investing in a
fully realized, three-prong approach to prevention, detection, and response,
you can increase your odds of success.