Top Cybersecurity Tools for Business - 0 views
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All cyber threats are not equal. Some may hold your data for ransom, while others may destroy your information for good.
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Digital tech analysis firm Juniper Research predict that the cost of data breaches will rise from $3 trillion annually to over $5 trillion in 2024.
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organizations should look to Next Generation Anti-Virus solutions (NGAV) to protect their assets. NGAV takes traditional AV and then adds advanced analytics, behavioral analysis powered in real-time by large scale cloud back-ends to thwart known and unknown attacks. Leading NGAV solutions include Sentinel One, Carbon Black, and CrowdStrike.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers cybersecurity guidelines for best practices to manage cyber risk. These include identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. Another resource is the NCSA’s national program, CyberSecure My Business.
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Firewall Often referred to as a company's "first line of defense," a firewall is a security control that filters and screens network traffic entering and exiting your corporate network.
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People can rely on the password manager to create and store dozens of passwords in an encrypted database without having to remember them.
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This way, if there is ever a compromise of the password database, hackers don't have those full passwords.
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You should also consider implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA authentication uses more than one thing or "factor" to log you in
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SPAM & Malware filters screen email for unwanted and dangerous elements, blocking them before they ever reach your users.
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In the world of cybersecurity, there's a phrase, "humans are the weakest link." An employee who accidentally clicks on the wrong link or email attachment can put in motion a chain of events that results in a cyber breach. Security awareness training is an anti-phishing tactic all organizations should employ.
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reduce the risk of getting hacked is to ensure your systems and software are updated regularly, or "patched.
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patching shouldn't end with the operating system. Your patch program should also look to patch all other applications running on your systems
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regardless of the security tools implemented to prevent a data breach, you should plan for a compromise occurring.
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Cyber attacks open more and more often and varied since cybercriminals are becoming more cunning and their methods more challenging to detect. This article introduces some types of strategies implemented to protect companies' businesses from cyber threats and cybercriminals. Including using Anti-virus software, firewalls, password managers (very useful while some even free), VPN, patch management program which not only for operating program but also for other applications running on your system, consider the email SPAM/Malware filters and security awareness training for the employee since "humans are the weakest link." An employee who accidentally clicks on the wrong link can put in motion a chain of events that results in a cyber breach. Finally, plan a 24/7/365 network and endpoint monitoring.