A Case Study On Cybersecurity Posture And Risk Assessment (VIDEO)

The initial backbone of any network security strategy is first performing a comprehensive operational assessment of your security environment so you know where you stand....and where you need to go. This video explains a big problem in today's cybersecurity assessments and shares a case study on how to solve it.

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Network Security Design And Sourcing

Insights On Third Party Risk Management

 

THE PROBLEM

Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a Ponemon & Opus study stated that they had experienced a data breach caused by a third party or vendor. Most major breaches covered by the media have third party roots; think Target, Home Depot, General Electric, and Instagram. Despite the commonality of third-party breaches in the news, only forty-four percent of businesses report on risk to their executives or boards regularly, and eighty-two percent manage vendor information, monitoring, and assessments using spreadsheets or manual processes. These statistics demonstrate the ease in which attackers can access information without penetrating individual businesses. On the supply chain side, there has been a seventy-eight percent increase in attacks, including living off the land attacks.

WHAT IS A THIRD PARTY?

 

So, what is Third-party Risk Management (TPRM)? It is the practice of identifying, assessing, and controlling risks presented throughout the lifecycle of your relationship with third parties. When we think of third parties, we commonly associate the term “vendor.” While a vendor is a third party, there are others to consider when we talk about the third-party risk landscape. Third parties can be any of the following:

This third-party ecosystem expands across the enterprise, providing critical functions and services within each department. Third parties have varying access to information. Third parties, like cleaning services, have access to secured areas and equipment. Others have access and process data on behalf of the business, and some, like contractors, may have access to intellectual property and trade secrets. This means that there is no third party that is risk-free. To provide a little context on the impact of third parties  organizations:

Managing third-party risk across an organization presents numerous challenges. Manual processes can be time-consuming, and in companies that don’t have dedicated personnel, the job is often assigned as a secondary role. In larger companies, the person or people responsible for managing risk spend dozens of hours using manual processes that don’t always identify gaps or have a verified monitoring method. Network complexity presents challenges related to the expanding third-party ecosystem. Issues like applications sprawl or Shadow IT can lead to unexpected risk and unexpected bills. Lack of governance, policies, and procedures that address third-party risk is another challenge because organizations without a compliance department lack the awareness necessary to build an effective program. Perhaps the biggest challenge in addressing third-party risk is prioritizing and classifying vendors and monitoring them in a way that is effective and useful. Leaders in the risk management and cybersecurity industry are aware of these challenges and are creating platforms that simplify the third-party risk process.

Cyber risk isn’t the only risk posed by a third party. There is also a regulatory risk, financial risk, IT and security risk, reputational risk, and strategic risk.

THE RSI APPROACH

 

RSI is here to provide help when it comes to Third-Party Risk Management, this is their approach:

Below we have listed a few qualifying questions you need to ask yourself when evaluating your  third party risk management needs.  

• How are you managing third parties for security and compliance?
• If you lost a particular vendor, would your business continue?
• Do you monitor your critical vendors for data breaches?
• Do you run credit reports on your vendors?
• What is your contingency for vendors who experience an outage?

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Cybersecurity Strategies And Resources

A Guide To Finding The Right Managed IT Services Partner

IT outsourcing is on the rise as businesses look to streamline operations, reduce complexity and lower costs.  But with increasing market maturity and service availability comes a new challenge: finding the ideal outsourced option. Read on for more....

A Guide To Finding The Right Managed IT Services Partner

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Managed Services

How To Know If You Need Advanced Cybersecurity Solutions

Since the beginning of 2016, there have been over 4,000 ransomware attacks every day. This means the average ransom demand has risen to $1,077. Along with the threats and the cybercrime out there, when we take a look at the actual traffic of internet it seems to be moving in the direction of spam emails. As of the most recently reported period, spam emails accounted for 60 percent of email traffic worldwide. When you look at the traffic on the internet, 48 percent of it is bots, which is traffic on the bandwidth that's not business related. As threats are building up and new techniques are being utilized to get in on-premise devices have had to increase their security feature set. As companies add these filtering engines and security features, they have to increase the processing speed of these devices which in turn increases the cost of the device and subscription.

OmniNet delivers the next generation of Fortune 500-grade cybersecurity and is the only provider in the market to move the edge of small businesses to a virtual, omnipresent perimeter. Their patented technology delivers robust yet simplified cloud security and eliminates bandwidth pollution, which is inherent to traditional premise-based security solutions. To avoid the usage of on-premise devices, OmniNet has moved everything to the cloud. Now that OmniNet is not limited to an on-premise device they can have the full unified threat management stack virtually hosted in the cloud. They are no longer limited to a box, its processing power or its upfront cost. The OmniNet Cloud is a multi-layered, sophisticated security stack that inspects all traffic at wire speed using up to six industry-leading security engines. All data is tunneled to the OmniNet Cloud to go through a rigorous screening process detecting and blocking any malware, malicious links/content, threats or intrusions. Everything happens in the OmniNet Cloud so that no threats can get close to your network or your data. This rigorous filtering process is applied to both incoming and outbound traffic. Anything going in or out is thoroughly cleaned, and your network is protected.

PRODUCTS

OmniShield is the next-generation cybersecurity solution that extends your company’s perimeter to all your sites while providing omnipresent, enterprise-grade security. It is nextgen tech and does what no traditional, premises-based security solution can do: It is always there, limitless, and virtual. So what are some of OmniShield's Features?

• Anti-Malware: Advanced antivirus and antispyware
• Advanced Threat Protection (ATP): Protects against Advanced Persistent Threats
• Basic Reporting: Weekly email
• Blocking of Embargoed Countries: by the United States and European Union
• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Blocks attacks
• Malicious Website Protection: Blocks phishing and malware sites
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Prevents sensitive data such as credit card numbers from leaving the network
• Suspicious Activity Monitoring: Monitors for any malicious or suspicious activity and traffic
• Firewall: Perimeter defense
• VoIP QoS: Voice Quality of Service
• Website Filtering: Block inappropriate or nonproductive websites
• LAN Separation for Dedicated PCI Network: PCI Compliance
• Denial of Service (DOS): Volume-based attacks
• Botnet (Malware Communication): Defense system
• Application Control: Block nonproductive or dangerous applications

We are never satisfied with bandwidth. When it feels slow, we buy more thinking it will help. Why do MPLS lines cost many times more for a lot less bandwidth? It’s because MPLS takes other important metrics into consideration not just bandwidth. There is latency, jitter, packet loss, stability, control, and prioritization. In most applications, bandwidth is the least important of all these metrics. OmniWAN brings all of the important quality metrics to your existing internet connection, turning your cable and DSL into the enterprise quality of MPLS, without the price tag. OmniWan’s features include:

• Dynamic Adaptation
• Latency and Jitter Control
• Packet Loss Reduction
• Bandwidth Fluctuation Control
• Quality of Service
• Traffic Prioritization
• Fragmentation Reduction
• Omni-Link - Site to Site vMPLS
• Increased Reliability
• Bandwidth Stacking
• Packet Level Link Balancing
• Lossless Failover
• Transmission Security
• Network Connection Monitoring

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Connectivity And Cybersecurity Solutions