In today's interconnected world, businesses face increasingly complex and evolving cyber threats. Safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining regulatory compliance, and ensuring overall organizational security have become paramount. One common misconception is that IT and Security functions are synonymous. However, merging these roles can have serious consequences. In this blog post, we will delve into the risks of combining IT and Security functions, the advantages of specialized roles, and steps to effectively separate them.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face an increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats. These threats, ranging from phishing and ransomware to supply chain attacks, can have catastrophic consequences. Not only do they result in significant financial loss, but they also cause severe damage to a company's reputation and customer trust.
FirmGuardian has continued to mature threat detection and response service offerings, and have established a trusted relationship with our customers, adding supplementary services to address other security operations gaps, particularly focusing vulnerability and patch management, security awareness training, compliance gap assessments, and annual risk assessments.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face an increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats. These threats, ranging from phishing and ransomware to supply chain attacks, can have catastrophic consequences. Not only do they result in significant financial loss, but they also cause severe damage to a company's reputation and customer trust.
Healthcare organizations have faced unprecedented challenges in 2020. Cyber attackers have targeted healthcare organizations with a 4x increase from 2017 to 2020. These attacks are not only growing in frequency, but also widening to include the array of healthcare specific technologies being implemented in your practice.
It is essential for every company to undergo a thorough risk assessment of its organization, business processes, and information technology systems. Although many organizations have automated patching practices in place, a vulnerability assessment from an outside organization provides visibility into areas that conventional IT tooling misses. FirmGuardian assists organizations to complete Vulnerability Assessments, and also to create better Risk Management Programs. We leverage industry-leading technology from Tenable® to identify, evaluate, and prioritize risk, and more importantly, leave your organization with a plan of action and accountability structure to reduce material risk.
Developing a risk management program is an endeavor that requires focus to understand the governance and compliance requirements of your organization. The simple truth is that vulnerability management tools alone only provide a starting point for a risk management program.
Strong coordination with leadership is a critical piece in addressing organizational, process, and information systems risk. This informed relationship helps to allocate the appropriate resources, and have a clear path to address specific security concerns. Identifying vulnerabilities are often the easy part — what is accomplished after the assessment is the true measure of success.
