As the landscape of Cyber Risk grows both in complexity and frequency your organizations data, client information and risk management practices should be one of your top priorities.   Conventional security solutions and methodologies are no longer enough to combat today’s intricate cybercrimes. The Cybersecurity field has shifted considerably, your organization needs to brace for impact and become resilient.

What is Cyber Resilience?

Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s ability to successfully continue operations and deliver to customers in the face of a critical cyber event, whether that be an internal outage or an external threat. The ability for an organization to be adaptable and agile when a critical event occurs are fundamental components of resilience in cybersecurity.  Being resilient, however, means much more than attack prevention or response. Cyber Resiliency is the ability to foresee, weather, recover and adjust to adverse attacks on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.  Your first task as an organization is to develop a robust Security Framework these guidelines and best practices will help your organization build and improve your cybersecurity posture.

Benefits of Cyber Resiliency

A well-established cyber resilience strategy offers multiple benefits before, during and after disruptive cyber incidents:

Minimize Financial Impact: A cyber resilient organization is well prepared for cyberattacks and can recover from disasters faster, which results in reduced financial losses from security breaches or events.

Helps Your Organization Remain Compliant: Businesses today collect and handle large amounts of data including sensitive customer information. As such, businesses must comply with multiple regulations and failing to comply with these complex regulations could lead to fines, penalties and lawsuits. An effective cyber resilience framework allows you to assess the security status of your organization, identify loopholes that could lead to non-compliance, and fill in the gaps to ensure legal and regulatory requirements are met.

Enhance Brand Reputation: A data breach incident could cost your business much more than just financial losses. It can tarnish your brand’s reputation and deteriorate customer trust. Cyber resilience helps improve information security and position your business as a secure entity that your customers can rely on.

Sustained Business Performance: Cyber resilience helps improve the overall security of your business, eliminate threats before they inflict any damage and reduce the frequency of cyber incidents. A robust cyber resilience framework also includes an incident response plan that helps mitigate risks and minimize the impact of cyberthreats on your business. This helps you run your business with minimal downtime or disruption during and after an event.

How can Brockton Point Improve Your Approach to Cyber Resilience?

Risk Assessments: The primary purpose of a Risk Assessment is to help inform decision-makers within your organization support proper risk responses to the following:

1. Relevant threats within your organization
2. Internal and external vulnerabilities
3. Impact if those vulnerabilities are exploited
4. Likelihood of exploitation

Governance & Compliance​: Regulations change, cyberthreats evolve and vulnerabilities multiply.  Let Brockton Point help you assess and prioritize your risk and align your security controls to best practice cybersecurity frameworks to ensure your organization operates efficiently and effectively.  Brockton Point can analyze your processes, review your controls, and recommend adjustments to strengthen your security and maximize your return on investment.

Privacy​: Brockton Point’s privacy services help organizations stay up to date with data privacy as well as complying with the constant evolving regulatory landscape.  Protect your brand reputation through the proper protection of business, customer, and other sensitive information.  We can help sustain effective data protection and a healthy compliance management position, which will help reduce potential threats to data breaches and costly fines from regulators.

Security Awareness Program:  At Brockton Point we believe Security Awareness Training is most useful when approached as a critical ongoing practice rather than a one-time event or course.  Threats are continually changing and the common thread for most significant threats today are people; your employees.  Our evolving library of material will educate your employees on threats like phishing, ransomware, malware, social engineering and more.  By implementing our program, you will cultivate a security mindset and culture that prioritized the protection of your organizations data.

Virtual CISO​:  Our virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) services will work routinely with organizations to provide all of the essential cyber security support one would expect from an in-house senior executive within a more efficient and affordable service model. Gain day-to-day cyber security support and counsel from a dedicated vCISO along with long-term security strategy, vision, program and policy design, and implementation.