Improve your cyber-resilience and vulnerability management while speeding up response times Top 10 ways to anticipate, eliminate, and defeat cyberthreats like a boss Introduction Cyberthreats are constantly evolving. Inefficient processes, human error, new initiatives like digital transformation, and unforeseen delays will all increase your risk. At the same time, complexity keeps growing with each new process, application, and piece of hardware. Despite the best intentions, critical items keep falling through the cracks—and most organizations can’t even identify what fell through, let alone the potential impact if left unchecked. The fact is, defending against potential and actual cyberbreaches is an ongoing process, and the collection of legacy point solutions you might be using don’t enable you to prepare for risks adequately—let alone react to incidents. In this ebook, we’ll reveal the top 10 ways you can manage risk and cybersecurity with a modern, cloud-based platform approach that equips you to continuously monitor activities, improve decision-making, and accelerate performance when vulnerabilities or breaches occur. Following these best practices will allow you to confidently support ongoing technology change and bolster your reputation as a leader. | 2Top 10 ways to anticipate, eliminate, and defeat cyberthreats like a boss Improve your cyber-resilience and vulnerability management while speeding up response times Combine IT, risk management, and security operations workflows on one platform Good cybersecurity hygiene requires ongoing effort, but workflows on a single platform for managing assets, vulnerabilities, security incidents, and risk can make the process easier. By integrating the tools and teams involved, you can better understand your risks and work efficiently to prioritize and remediate issues before they become a breach. Bringing together IT, security operations and risk management gives you a holistic strategy for keeping your organization safe. From asset discovery and vulnerability management, to integrated governance, risk and compliance management, you can make your people and processes more efficient. Your security operations must be able to leverage your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to map threats, security incidents, and vulnerabilities to business services along with IT infrastructure, like servers, computers, and users. This mapping enables prioritization and risk scoring based on business impact, ensuring your security teams are focused on what is most critical to your business. Working in a single platform also enables efficient collaboration with IT for remediation of risks and incidents, plus delivers the benefits of visibility and service level agreement tracking to ensure nothing is missed. It also allows you to connect security and risk together by aligning with regulatory compliance and ensuring correct business processes are followed. This provides the context needed for ongoing updates to cyberpolicy and processes. 1 Bringing together IT, security operations and risk management gives you a holistic strategy for keeping your organization safe. From asset discovery and vulnerability management, to integrated governance, risk and compliance management, you can make your people and processes more efficient. | 3Top 10 ways to anticipate, eliminate, and defeat cyberthreats like a boss Improve your cyber-resilience and vulnerability management while speeding up response times Automate and orchestrate to save time for security and risk management professionals Resourcing is an ongoing issue for both risk management and IT security organizations. A 2021 study from the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and ESG1 found that 57% of organizations are impacted by the lack of cybersecurity resources, and 44% said the problem is getting worse. One way to mitigate this is by employing automation and orchestration wherever possible to ease the burden on skilled personnel. Some organizations are reticent to relinquish too much control to their security platform, but there are plenty of ways automation can help you scale while still allowing your skilled analysts to handle decision making.