2. Get a Security Information and Event Management System
Professionals have been talking about the importance of retaining and analyzing security logs for more than two decades. Unfortunately, it’s still one of those items that manages to slip through the cracks. Robust logging provides businesses with the ability to proactively detect security anomalies and serves as a crucial resource during incident investigations.
Security information and event management solutions provide both the ability to ingest a wide variety of log sources and built-in analytical tools that can detect common security issues.
Many businesses that already have a SIEM system in place aren’t making good use of it. IT leaders should ask, “Are all of our systems and applications providing logs to the device? Does the security operations team have a strong monitoring and response process in place?” Those organizations that do have a SIEM system should take a look at the current deployment and find areas where it might be improved. Those that don’t should rectify that promptly.
3. Protect Your Business's Data
Whether it’s customer Social Security numbers, healthcare records or proprietary product development plans, every organization possesses valuable data that must be protected from unauthorized disclosure. Organizations must keep tabs on all of it.
Data loss prevention solutions enable organizations to track sensitive information where it resides on systems and when it travels over the network.
DLP also allows administrators to create policies describing authorized flows of sensitive information and automatically block any attempts to transfer data in violation of those policies. It’s crucial to keeping organizations out of the news as the source of the most recent breach of personally identifiable information.