As business owners aim to address multiple challenges that may be a threat to their organizations’ success, resilience is a trending buzzword. Organizational resilience is an organization's ability to anticipate, plan for and respond to gradual change and unexpected disruptions in your business environment so you can continue to operate and thrive.
One of the first steps businesses should take when prioritizing resiliency is building cyber resilience, which is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources. By creating a resilient culture, your people, technologies and processes will be able to recover from any setback—and come out even stronger for it.
Improving Your Cyber Resilience Posture
The last year and a half have taught us that the world can experience a tremendous change in a short time. Businesses are realizing that now is the time to identify and close the security gaps they have so they can build a strong business and brand for a more resilient future.
Consider the following when establishing cyber resilience:
- Deploy tools to detect, monitor, and manage system risks, including those that affect your supply chain.
- Identify abnormalities and potential cybersecurity issues through continuous network monitoring before they transform into severe threats.
- It is crucial to implement an incident response strategy to ensure operational continuance, so you can bounce back quickly if you are the victim of a cyber attack.
- Ensure your cyber resilience strategy is integrated into day-to-day operations and overseen by top management.
Steps to Improve Your Cyber Resilience
- Employee Training
Providing continual cybersecurity awareness training to your employees enables them to identify threats and vulnerabilities and prepares them to effectively identify an attack and deal with a crisis. - Stay Current with Technological Advances and Threat Landscape
It is crucial to keep up to date with the latest developments and threats. If you don't have an understanding of what you could be up against, you won't be able to protect your business. - Review Your Security Systems
Regularly assess your digital and physical systems to identify vulnerabilities. Use the best available configuration on your critical systems to prevent unauthorized access. - Adopt Advanced Technologies
Legacy technologies can be ineffective when dealing with today's challenges. As a result, having the most up-to-date and effective tools and technologies to keep your organization secure is critical. - Partner with an MSP
Managed Service Providers (MSP) have the expertise to handle the resiliency and technology matters for you, allowing you to spend your time and efforts towards your business.
If you're ready to take the first step towards building cyber resiliency in your organization but aren't sure where to start, contact us today.
