Every October the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) celebrates cybersecurity awareness month. During this time, CISA and other organizations make an effort to publish resources and guidance regarding the latest trends in cybersecurity. While it is important to stay vigilant and aware of cyber threats year-round, October is a good time for organizations and individuals to examine the steps they are taking to protect their private data.
This year's theme "Secure Our World" is all about providing simple ways that you can protect yourself, family, and business from cyber threats. Oftentimes the most effective defenses are the most practical. As an MSP, CorpInfoTech provides enterprise level IT and security solutions to SMBs. Through our services, we ensure your organization is secure year-round!
As previously mentioned, some of the most effective defenses against online threats are the most practical and simple to implement. However, you cannot defend against threats you don't understand. Security awareness training should be required for every employee within your organization, no exceptions. Through these training programs, employees will learn about the dangers of phishing, social engineering, and other common threats they may encounter while doing their job. Security awareness training will also provide them with the tools on how to better defend themselves against these types of attacks. Employees should learn how to spot a phishing email or message, and how to respond accordingly. These training programs must also educate users on the potential consequences of a successful data breach or ransomware attack.
CorpInfoTech offers cybersecurity awareness training as part of its managed service offering. This platform educates users on the dangers they will face on the internet while also providing them with the tools to defend themselves. We ensure that each employee becomes a cybersecurity asset rather than a liability.
The purpose of cybersecurity assessments for businesses is to evaluate their current security posture, identify vulnerabilities, and ensure that adequate protections are in place to defend against cyber threats. Your security assessment should expose any weaknesses or vulnerabilities that may exist within your network. This helps to create a roadmap for what needs to be done in order to increase your organizations security posture. Your organizations should also take stock of what assets they currently hold. What data is confidential? Where is it stored? Who has access? All of these things need to be taken into account when examining your businesses security posture.
CorpInfoTech utilizes the CIS Controls, an industry standard framework, to assess our clients. Our comprehensive security assessments provide organizations with the problem and solution to their cybersecurity needs. Using the CIS Controls, we can also tailor our assessments to fit your unique business needs. Whether it be compliance or general security, our assessments root out any potential vulnerabilities and offer guidance on how to remediate them.
What happens when an organization knows that they need greater security and they have an idea of where their gaps lie, but simply don't have the resources to fix it themselves? Sadly, this is the case for many small-medium sized businesses (SMBs). A vast majority of SMBs lack the resources, budget, and expertise to effectively implement the necessary controls themselves. This is why many of them turn to a managed service provider (MSP) for help.
As an MSP, CorpInfoTech provides enterprise level IT and security solutions to SMBs seeking to bolster their security posture. This includes implementing and managing many of the most practical security controls in addition to the more technical including firewall management, vulnerability management, and compliance aid.
This October, examine yourself and your organization to determine whether or not you are doing everything you can to reduce cyber risk and "secure out world"!