Take back control! Cyber resilience and ransomware – Part 1

Cyber resilience is a wide-ranging subject, and a properly implemented strategy will cover a large range of subject areas, right across the business, from human factors, through detection, response, restoration etc. Cyber resilience is your business’ ability to take back control. To recover with confidence – never paying the ransom and returning to normal business as quickly an as effectively as possible.

We sometimes think of a business as similar to a house. To keep it safe, you close your windows, lock your doors, and set alarms. That’s the equivalent of infrastructure and network security. Ransomware is the most prevalent risk right now and could be thought of as someone breaking into you house in plain sight, changing your locks, locking you out and asking you to pay a ransom or else they threaten to share your private information with all your neighbours.

Unfortunately, cyber criminals consider what they do a money-making operation so will target ANY business, or ANY size, in ANY industry therefore its incredibly important that any business has a robust cyber resilience plan in place, read on for some tips and options…

The first step needs to be understanding where your business is right now, what its risks are, and what it needs to do.

Assess!

The team at Dataplanet regularly provide consultancy to businesses of all sizes on exactly this, and the engagements almost always follows a high-level outline of:

• Business review – how is the business positioned now.
• Business impact analysis and risk assessment – what are the likely effects of an impact event, are there additional parties that might get caught up in the blast radius (such as suppliers and clients) and will always need to understand the recovery time and point objective of the business,
• The technological solutions already in place, and how they align to the above
• The cyber hygiene awareness already within the business.

All of this culminates in a gap analysis and strategy overview document. It will lay out where there are risks in the current position, and our recommendations to strengthen against the accepted strategy pillars of Assess, Prevent, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

Join us for part two, where we will discuss some of the solutions dataplanet can leverage to prevent and detect or get in touch if you would like to know more on the above.