Businesses are threatened like never before, not investing in IT security is effectively self-insuring against the inevitable. By enhancing your cyber security across your business, you ensure that when, not if, your business suffers a cyber attack you have already undertaken all of the mitigations needed to survive it.
Cyber security is sink-or-swim, it is effectively about being the least attractive target in an ocean of automated cyberattacks. These come from a range of attackers, both state-backed as well as criminal organisations and individuals. Much of your competition does not invest in cyber security, and will likely not be able to afford the ‘knocks’ successful cyber attacks will hit them with.
Security is always a moving target, so you need experts on-side not only to spin up your defences but to sustain them. Generative ‘AI’ has sped up the precision and lethality of cyber attacks, making SMEs which do not invest in basic security increasingly at risk. Beat the competition and your business will be the one to survive.
Threat Intelligence
Threat Intelligence comes in many forms, businesses will typically depend on Managed Security Services, effectively leaving it to the experts. This ranges from being aware of industry news, new threats and vulnerabilities from confidential security networks, and being attuned to changes in your business. Almost every IT security company will have a research arm, one which is actively seeking to identify and publish mitigations and fixes for CVEs. This includes government organisations such as ENISA’s CVE programme.
If you do not have eyes on the state of security on your estate, it is likely that the systems are at severe risk or have already been breached. This naturally results in tough conversations with your customers and the ICO, which every orgnisation would rather avoid.
You are busy running your business, you don’t have time to scour the web in constant search of risks to your business. Instead of spending hours on ‘Hacker News’ or other publications, rest assured that our teams are on constant watch on your behalf – ensuring you never have to worry about IT.
Hacker News
How we can help
Instead of going for the first ‘solution’ you see on the internet, we conduct detailed discovery, ensuring you adopt the solutions which suit your needs. An SME typically needs to fix easy-wins which are attacked daily through automated tools, for these are easy-wins for cyber attackers as well. This means combatting zero-day malware, threats to web-applications like your website or CRM, and ensuring you meet and sustain the Cyber Essentials standard.
Larger organisations or those which work in highly regulated fields, such as defence and healthcare, need a bit more oomph on the security front. This means more than anti-malware, ensuring your cloud security is up to standard on a range of fronts. This needs to be sensitive to your size, budget and actual business risks. Rather than pushing off-the-shelf solutions which don’t attend to your particular needs, we build a deep understanding of your business to combat the actual risks you are worried about.
Because Suzaku Consulting offer both a Managed Service Desk alongside Managed Security Services, you can depend on us to build a thorough understanding of your business and its goals. This means you benefit from a bespoke approach to securing your business without the cost of management consultants. IT security is more than ‘buying stuff’ and depends on a nuanced understanding of risk profiles specific to your industry, working in accordance with the Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA) maxim.
RSS Feeds
There are a litany of sources to draw to keep up to date on cyber security news and best-practice, should you be interested we have a choice selection of RSS Feeds which you can access at our blog post here.