Detect, Respond, Recover: A Three-Step Approach to Protecting Your Data
Every business needs to rely on technology, no matter what sector it’s in.
In today’s digital age, technology serves as the backbone for innovation, efficiency and having a competitive edge. But with advancing technology comes a constant threat in the form of escalating attacks on our digital world.
Cyber threats have become increasingly sophisticated and widespread. Malicious actors are relentlessly targeting organizations of all types to compromise their data. Having a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that includes cyberstorage is more essential than ever to avoid an attack and protect your business.
Broken down in the simplest way, there are three critical steps to protecting your data.
Detect: Identifying Threats Early
Imagine a large financial firm that handles sensitive customer information and conducts a significant volume of transactions daily. Thankfully, the company’s IT department has a comprehensive cybersecurity approach.
One day, the team detects unauthorized changes to production data from an unknown source. This allows the IT team to quickly identify and respond to the threat. Detecting threats as soon as possible is incredibly important, but it’s just the beginning.
Respond: Swift and Effective Action
Once the threat is detected, the next step is to respond quickly and activate incident response protocols. This allows the IT team to halt any unauthorized data changes and isolate any intrusion that may have occurred.
All key stakeholders must be well-informed and trained on the corporate response plan. The protocols help minimize unauthorized access to sensitive customer data and damage to customer trust.
An effective response ensures the threat is neutralized rapidly and the impact on the organization is minimal.
Recover: Ensuring Business Continuity
Once the threat has been detected and the response plan has been activated, the organization can focus on the recovery phase to ensure minimal disruption to the business.
A quality cyberstorage solution needs to feature integrated data manipulation detection and immutable data copies that back up and recover critical data even during an attack. This piece of the puzzle helps ensure your data is recovered within hours instead of days or even weeks.
Now that the IT department has detected the threat, it quickly goes into action by implementing its incident response protocol. The IT team stops changes to sensitive data from the unknown source and isolates affected systems to remove the threat of intrusion.
The key to this company’s success was that it had a protocol planned before an intrusion occurred. That allowed it to respond much more quickly and effectively than if it had waited until an attack happened to decide what to do.
The Role of Evolving Solutions
Our commitment is to be the means to an end, helping all companies leverage technology for success and innovation — that includes protecting their data. While every business needs to have a good plan in place, we know not all business leaders are technology experts. They can’t afford to spend all day staying on top of technology advancements. By partnering with Evolving Solutions, you can rest assured the lifeblood of your organization is secure.
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