Cyber and information security can be an obscure business to individuals other than outsiders and technicians in most industries. Unfortunately, this often means that people only realize its importance when they are in the midst of a crisis. The main activities of best cyber security companies, in particular the Spector and Information Security efforts, are shown below. Simply read the topic of your choice to understand the activity description and how it can add value to your business.
Patch management
What’s that:
Patch management is the process of fixing vulnerabilities in infrastructure systems. It is very important to reduce risk and reduce business threats. This is an important and ongoing activity, as cybercriminals usually only need a few days to learn how to exploit vulnerabilities once they are discovered.
How to do it:
- To ensure successful patch management, you should typically adhere to the following process:
- Patch Evaluation-Patch Test-Patch Approval-Patch Release-Post Check
- At Spector, engineers come up with debug tools after testing and validation to ensure they are error-free.
Data backup and disaster recovery
What’s that:
Second, for employees, the company’s most important asset is data. Therefore, maintaining the confidentiality, reality, and availability of data throughout the lifecycle is paramount. For that, cybersecurity companies always make it one of their priorities. Backup is the process of copying and storing data to prevent the loss of important company information. Less known and less important is the concept of disaster recovery. In other words, it is the act of returning this copy to the living environment. This means knowing how long it will take for your system to back up and restart, and how much data will be lost in the process. Disaster recovery is very important. Look forward to more articles on this topic.
How to do it:
First, it is necessary to formulate a business continuity plan to determine an accurate action policy in the event of a disaster. Next, we will discuss your recovery goals in terms of data and time to determine the best solution. Spector provides on-premises and cloud backup solutions and regularly tests these backups to ensure that customer data remains available and recoverable.
Allow access control
What’s that:
Access control is the process of applying security controls to regulate who can access the resources of your computer environment. You need to identify assets and resources and classify them according to their importance and confidentiality. It only gives the right employees access to data that is essential to their roles, such as corporate financial reporting and strategic planning. Access control is critical to cybersecurity as it reduces risk and prevents data breaches in business.
How to do it:
Spector tends to manage access control using a few simple actions and tools. Such as active directory groups.
You can also define this level using tools such as multi-factor authentication (discussed below) and single sign-on. A single login portal is the location of all applications, protected and restricted to enterprise members. Placing this portal ensures protection as users don’t see the real passwords for individual apps and can easily add or remove them.
Firewall management
What’s that:
Firewalls are the first line of defense for enterprise infrastructure. They prevent or allow unauthorized traffic, both inbound and outbound. Therefore, it poses a huge risk to the business. This is tantamount to leaving the office with the office door wide open.
How to do it:
Firewall management is the monitoring of Internet traffic in and out of your company. Cybersecurity companies enable firewalls and configure them for maximum security. It also monitors your firewall 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and receives reports directly from your service desk. Therefore, if an intruder comes, we will immediately recognize it and block its access.
Anti-malware
What is that:
Protect online browsing, communications, and transactions. Malware protection is essential for businesses to protect against ever-evolving cybersecurity threats.
How is it done:
Through our partners, Spector provides malware protection in a subscription model for corporate PCs, laptops, servers, and mobile devices. Manage alerts and patch software to ensure efficient execution. By protecting against malware, you can prevent the loss of data, reputation, and funds.
Multi-factor authentication
What is that:
Multi-factor authentication is a way for a user to establish an identity by providing at least two authentication instances (what the user has, what they know, or what they have). The main advantage of multi-factor authentication is the additional security provided by adding multiple layers of protection. The more demographics you have, the lower the risk of an intruder accessing your network resources.
How is it done:
You can configure critical systems and applications to configure multi-factor authentication. Spector uses third-party applications, tokens, and single-entry gateways to provide multi-factor authentication. These tools generate user codes that you need to enter or activate to log in. This prevents cybercriminals from accessing their accounts even if they know their passwords.
Email and spam protection
What is that:
Email is one of the leading online portals for any enterprise and one of the most used channels by cybercriminals. Phishing attacks, viruses, and spam are more than just sabotage, they can endanger your data and systems very quickly. High-end cybersecurity usually also offers these types of services.
How is it done:
Use the third-party software, The E-Mail Laundry, to set filters and analyze sender domains and email servers. The email laundry service also scans for specific keywords, attachments, and methods that spammers use to determine if a message is safe. It constantly monitors program activity and, if it finds suspicious content, sends users a quarantine report that allows them to decide whether to issue or block similar messages.
Endpoint encryption
What is that:
Only individuals with a specific encryption key can access the information. These are becoming more and more important as laptops and tablets contain important data and employees are becoming more mobile.
How is it done:
Encrypts and protects hardware disks. That is, no one without the user’s credentials can access the disc. The information is then automatically encrypted. For employees, it’s as easy as entering a username and password, but for criminals, it’s almost impossible to access.
Training and education
What is that:
Security awareness training is a formal process that educates employees about cybersecurity and data protection. This is one of the most important activities a company can engage in, as the company’s employees are the first line of defense. This is especially important today as social engineering and phishing attacks are becoming more and more common.
How is it done:
A good security awareness program needs to educate employees about company policies and procedures for working with information technology. We usually train people through awareness training videos and quizzes that allow them to learn in their own time. Then stay alert to them with the ultimate email phishing test designed to trick employees into warning them about threats.
Cyber security policy
What is that:
Company policy is a high-level principle and guideline adopted by an organization to convey its purpose and expected outcomes. Without policies, companies have no blueprint to work on, and standards can vary widely across companies. Therefore, having a set of policies must be the way the company operates and the expected level of standards that the company operates.
How is it done:
Policy development should be the first step in cybersecurity as it serves as the basis for defining procedures and technologies. Spector can provide many IT and cybersecurity-related policies and frameworks for companies to work on. This is essential to reach the maturity of the organization.
