We understand how important it is to keep your business safe, after all, cyber protection is everything nowadays. You want to keep your business’s finances and, most importantly, its reputation secure.
So where do we go from there? The next step is to invest in ransomware protection. And that lies in prevention, detection and recovery.
So here’s our guide to properly safeguard your business with ransomware protection.
The issues lie in a few different aspects.
Perhaps your business has no backups or does have backups sitting on the same network as everything else.
No device management, so you’re unsure which devices are connected. Or no dedicated IT or security team.
Software running months behind updates with no patch for that open backdoor in the code?
Staff clicking phishing links because they haven’t been trained properly, and user permissions being handed out without any proper guidelines.
A huge misconception of cyber criminals is that they’re geniuses wearing a hoodie, breaking through a firewall. The actual reality is cyber protection oversights, an open door in the code, using a password left in the public eye, this is where ransomware protection comes into play.
Here’s the basics, what you can do right now to close that gap in the security
If you’re known to skip updates, it’s essentially a known weakness that an attacker can break through brute force.
Ensure everything is current and that your device management can prove it across all devices
Keeping access secure is paramount. In the worst-case scenario, your systems are breached. If someone in accounts gets phished, you want the damage contained to accounts, not your entire file system.
Least privilege isn’t bureaucracy. It’s a firebreak.
Your staff are the front line. So it’s best you teach them how to defend your systems properly.
Ensuring that your employees can spot phishing is important, as one click on the wrong link could result in a mistake that doesn’t end the company.
At HDUK, we can ensure your virtual workspace is properly backed up online, completely off your own network.
That separation is the entire point. It’s proper ransomware protection as none of your data is stored locally. Essentially, if your network gets infected, ransomware encrypts everything it can touch locally, it can’t touch a backup, and it has no path to your most important pieces of data. In other words, it’s quarantined. And investigations can take place safely.
So, all of the above is checked off, but your business is still hit. Ransomware attackers move through your network first, quietly, escalating access and hunting for your data and backups.
That window, between the break-in and the payload, is where you either catch them or you don’t.
Which is why SOC SIEM is the next stage of ransomware protection. Threat detection, active threat hunting, monitoring firewalls, VPNs and device management is the real preventative measure against cyber attacks.
It’s the login at three in the morning. The account suddenly reaching files it’s never touched.
The first signs of mass encryption. Spotted early, that’s an incident you contain. Missed, that data exposed.
SOC SIEM is the main source of defence, a continuous monitoring of your systems, to ensure that any threat get’s shut down immediately.
Okay, here’s what you need to if the worst occurs. We’ll walk you through everything you need to know
It’s a lot, but that’s why preventative measures matter. The business with isolated systems and a clean backup in a data centre restores and rebuilds. The business with no plan rebuilds from nothing, measured in weeks. Sometimes it never recovers.
Cyber security is the most important investment a business can make this century.
Clients hand you their data on trust, and a cyber breach will lose confidence in your clients and any potential client in the future.
Book a free consultation with us, and we can do a full diagnostic on your systems and tell you the best course of action for your business. We’d also strongly recommend you invest in SOC SIEM security.
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