How to curate a Cyber Resilience Strategy

Identify essential business operations

Identify and review your critical business processes and assess how vulnerable they are in case of cyber disruptions. You must consider your entire business operations, from people, production processes, and suppliers.

Begin by creating a list of operations that rely on technology and assess each of them systematically.

Risk Analysis

Perform a risk analysis to understand the weaknesses within your business operations and conduct penetration tests to identify potential vulnerabilities. This will help you recognise the areas you need to invest more time bolstering.

Invest in Protection

Although it is true that the capabilities that bad actors possess are increasingly growing, investing in cybersecurity still is a necessity.
Cybersecurity protection acts as the first line of defence for many organisations with it operating as a deterrent to many ‘bad actors’. Usually, it will incorporate a mixture of both hardware and software systems, such as antivirus, firewalls, authentication and human oversight.

Detecting

Alongside prevention, the detection of an attack, or attempted, is vital information needed to inform and enhance your Cyber Resilience strategy. Using sophisticated software to analyse the network and identify any malware that has the potential to corrupt your data, provides safe reassurances that during the data recovery period, you will not reinfect your network.

Recovery Plan

A well-established data recovery and business continuity plan must be implemented for the continued protection of your business.
After a security breach, your data, system, and operations that have been impacted must be restored quickly. This is crucial so that your business is not impacted by downtime, tarnished brand reputation, and possibly a hefty fee.

However, with many recovery solutions being attached to the primary network, it is a frequent occurrence that recovered back-up data contains malware with the potential of corrupting your network again rendering the data ineffective.

This need for an isolated solution is why many organisations have begun in investing in solutions with immutable data storage solutions that provide access for restoring and recovery of uncorrupted data.

One such solution, is Dell’s Cyber Recovery Vault.