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Integrated Approach to Security

The technology and business landscape is changing in cybersecurity.  Traditional techniques for protecting your systems and data are no longer enough.  All businesses are at risk with cybercrime becoming a big business with services like Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) becoming a reality.​

The good news is that significant advancements in cybersecurity are now available and can be combined into a next-gen integrated security framework.  This framework could include a wide variety of next-generation security solutions, with the following four providing a strong foundation for success.

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Threat Risk Assessment

The standardized Threat Risk Assessments (TRA) process will identify areas of risk, assess those risks, and identify activities to reduce risks to an acceptable level.

The output of this process will help identify appropriate controls for reducing / managing risk.

Security Vision and Trends Review

Developing an effective IT & Cyber Security strategy is challenging.  Staying abreast of the current risks, tools, and mitigation techniques is even more difficult. Security risks are constantly evolving and changing.  Costs related to a security breach have a much larger impact than most organizations realize.  

Data Perceptions’ Security Team lives in this IT security ecosystem.  Our industry experts will lead a collaborative discussion with your key security stakeholders to review your current vision for IT security and help you understand the impact of industry trends and directions.

IT Security Assessment

Information Security and Operations Scorecard

This workshop-based review provides a forum to discuss development of a security vision and strategy with respect to current cyber security trends. It covers a broad spectrum of current cyber security industry trends and helps identify what is most relevant to your organization.

This is a relatively short engagement compared to a full security assessment. It is focused on high level discussions of the most important aspects of cyber security needed for improving your security posture. ​

This review provides a summary of relevant security trends and collaborative recommendations for potential roadmap items.

Components of a Security 

Architecture

When making improvements to security operations, consider a combination of people, process, and technology. Security operations digital transformation needs to ensure that the design and architecture fit operations well.

​Security operations digital transformation makes business operations more productive, more reliable, more agile, and more secure.  

Consider the following areas when undertaking this challenge.

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Security Awareness Training & Testing

An excellent Cost Effective Cyber Security Investment.  

Cybercriminals use your employees as the weak link to gain access to your systems.  

Well developed security awareness training can reduce an organization’s vulnerability to cybercrime by 75% in the short term with further improvement within the first year. 

SD-WAN & Security 

SD-WAN is fast becoming a go-to technology for IT departments and organizations looking to reduce the cost of connecting their various sites and cloud services. 

Data Perceptions provides network strategy, design and implementation services.  

SD-WAN solutions reduce total cost (TCO) and require security integration with other security products to be effective. 

SD-WAN simplifies enhancements to network application performance, network redundancy and availability.

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Tips

Information Security Basics Checklist

Technology and threats are constantly changing - confirm your protections are still relevant annually with this checklist.

SAML - Simply Explained

Security Assertion Markup Language, or SAML, is a standardized way to use a centralized directory of users, like Azure Active Directory, to securely allow access to external applications and services.  

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