You Need to Give Your Business’ Security the Most Stable Base Possible

When considering the strengths of shapes, the triangle is generally considered the strongest, its three vertices creating the optimally stable configuration. The same can be said of your business’ approach to cybersecurity. The difference is that, instead of three equal legs working together to support whoever is seated on a stool, your business’ cybersecurity relies on equal investment in three key areas: your people, your processes, and your technology.

Let’s talk about how this holistic approach puts your business in the best position to stay secure, and where many organizations fall short.

Some Succumb to the Temptation to Focus Too Much On One Area

Returning to the stool analogy for a moment, the seat becomes less and less effective the longer one leg is compared to the others. The same can be said for your cybersecurity: with too little effort or too much focus given to any aspect of it, you’re leaving it less effective than it needs to be. You need to balance your preparations so that you are as protected as possible in all three key areas.

The Three Facets of Business Cybersecurity

Your People

Your team members can be either your greatest security asset or your most significant vulnerability. It all depends on how deeply ingrained security is in your culture. To ensure that your team can identify phishing links, rather than enabling a threat to bypass significant dollars’ worth of security spending, you need to continually train your team to be aware of these threats and test their preparedness to deal with them. 

Furthermore, your team needs to understand how important a part they play in the business’ security, being able to spot potential scams and come up with strong passwords.

Your Processes

Your company, and those who work for it, need policies and procedures that encourage greater security. These processes should be clear and straightforward, defining how the technology and data need to be handled, touching on things like:

• A formalized password policy
• A concrete incident response plan
• A set of rules dictating how company devices are to be used to access data remotely

This is all critical to keep everyone on the same page, an essential element of maintaining your security, and ensuring that your security processes remain consistent.

Your Technology

This covers all of your practical defenses, from your firewall, antivirus, email filtering, multi-factor authentication, and data backup. While all of these are essential, it is equally important that a group of highly trained people follow established processes. 

Lacking any one of these factors will compromise your overall security posture and will do so in a unique way. That’s why we focus on providing comprehensive defenses for our clients.

Our services are designed to attend to your people, your processes, and your technology alike. We want to help ensure that you are as secure as possible so that you can focus on your operations. Give us a call at (619) 331-4008 to learn more about the security assistance we offer.