High profile breaches make the main headlines every day globally. Advanced Persistent Threats and sophisticated cyber attacks are becoming more and more frequent. These days it is not a case of if companies get breached, but more of when.

How can you prevent this from happening to you:

1. Prioritise your business objectives and set your risk tolerance.

Identify the areas most at risk and your most valuable assets. For a successful plan, you need to be able to see just how much damage would occur if an attack were to succeed in striking the business and where it would impact the most.

2. Protect your organisation with a proactive security plan.

Once the organisation has established their priorities it’s time to ensure the right technology is being utilised. This is where you take the steps to ensure that your company is aware of potential threats and working proactively to defend itself against them. Develop a security strategy with policies and technologies designed to proactively protect the assets and information.

3. Prepare your response to the inevitable: sophisticated cyber attacks.

If your reputation is critical to your ability to conduct business, and you find that the nature of your business may heighten your risk to sophisticated attacks, you might want to consider employing ongoing threat monitoring and management. This approach uses technology designed to improve defense, automate incident response and conduct forensic analysis across a broad range of threats.

4. Promote and support a culture of security awareness.

Since each person poses a potential breach, each one must also represent a piece of the solution. That means secure procedures for data need to become second nature, much like locking the door behind you when you leave home. A good approach to ensuring your staff are “cyber aware” is to introduce a cyber security awareness training program in your company.

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