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Organizational tech teams use diverse tools, techniques and services to attain the cyber security posture of their choice. However, there is a tech trend that most will agree on: in today’s landscape of increased connectivity and reliance on IT, the question that tech teams focus on should not be “whether” security breach will happen to their IT infrastructure but “when” such an attack will occur.
Alarming cyber security stats within the last year indicate that cyber resilience should be a core strategy of every IT team. After reading this article, you will be able to differentiate between cyber resilience and traditional cybersecurity, recognize different types of persistent threats and identify effective strategies for cyber resilience for your organization.
Understanding Cyber Resilience
In order to fortify your organization’s resistance to cyber attacks, a combined strategy of cyber security and cyber resilience is key to adopt. Cyber security refers to the use of standard tools such as anti-virus software, multifactor authentication and regular device updates, to create tangible and crucial layer of protection for your organization’s networks. Cyber resilience however, goes one step further, evaluating people and processes in order to determine vulnerabilities within an organization’s defenses, and ensure a company’s ability to absorb and recover quickly from cyber assaults.
Some of the key components of cyber resilience can include:
- Ensuring the availability of offline backup capabilities.
- Implementing Multifactor Authentication
- Enhancing staff cyber security training and awareness to prevent human error.
- Preparing recovery strategies for public relations crises resulting from cyber attacks.
- Regularly conducting attack simulation exercises to boost business preparedness for cyber attacks.
- Developing a business continuity plan.
Identifying And Combating Persistent
Cyber threats intended to immobilize IT systems to extract ransom from businesses (ransomware) have gained notoriety. Other popular attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) are steadily gaining ground.
An APT is an intentional, prolonged cyber attack intended to stealthily enter networks and linger there undetected, stealing sensitive information for the intruder to exploit later. APTs are generally carried out by well-funded and sophisticated groups, and can sometimes be a state-sponsored attack, with an element of espionage, in order to steal national security information. At other times, the goal can be grand theft of highly valuable and sensitive user data such as national identity markers and financial codes. This is the more popular motivation for APTs as IBM identified that 32% of cyberincidents involved data theft and leak, indicating that attackers favor stealing and selling data, rather than encrypting it for extortion.
Strategies for identifying persistent threats include Threat Intelligence and Monitoring, Anomaly Detection and Incident Response Planning.
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