FEATURE: CYBER SECURITY - STAFF & RECRUITMENT
SOLVING THE
GROWING CYBER
SECURITY PROBLEM
REQUIRES MORE THAN
SKILLED SECURITY
PROFESSIONALS.
IT REQUIRES A
COMBINATION OF
PEOPLE, ADVANCED
ANALYTICS FOR
PROACTIVE
THREAT HUNTING,
COMPREHENSIVE
INTELLIGENCE FOR
REAL-TIME THREAT
AWARENESS, AND
INTEGRATED SECURITY
ARCHITECTURES. IN
ADVANCED SECURITY
ANALYTICS, THE
VALUE COMES FROM
THE PEOPLE
Get a breach plan and advanced
cyber security skills: Even firms
with mature security organisations
and advanced security protocols will
experience breaches. Every organisation
needs an incident response plan—a plan
that maps out in advance and regularly
tests against the types of incidents most
likely for the firm’s threat model. It is
recommended that you clearly define
accountability and responsibility for
data breach response and that it not
be dispersed throughout the company.
Create cross-functional teams that
include the expertise necessary to rapidly
respond to a data breach. Managed
services from a trusted security advisor
can help you create an incident response
plan: one that uses the latest skills,
analytics, intelligence, and technology to
ensure rapid and effective resolution.
Get security on the agenda in the
boardroom: When it comes to getting
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MIKE WESTON
Vice President - Cisco
Middle East
executives engaged, use high-profile
breaches as an opportunity to have a
conversation with the board. Describe
how that breach can happen in your
organisation. Then show them how to
address vulnerabilities. Look beyond
security professionals for in-house
hires. Top-level candidates today come
from military or federal enforcement
background, corporate technology,
and security strategy experience
because they have an understanding
of the threat environment and bring a
strategic mind-set to the table. Consider
corporate security professionals who
are moving laterally from small to large
organizations and IT professionals
who have made the move from the
infrastructure to the security domain.
Choose the right partners: If every
company is now a security company,
choosing the right partner is paramount.
Obtaining the right cyber security partner
can help you round out your expertise, so
you can be:
• More dynamic in your approach to
security by benefitting from global
best practices and real-time threat
intelligence
• More proactive in your security
posture by using advanced analytics
capabilities
• More adaptive and innovative than
your adversaries by implementing a
threat-centric security program that
can address the full attack continuum
before, during, and after an attack
across all attack vectors
Keep your security solutions
operating at peak performance:
Greater use of automation tools not
only improves your security posture; it
frees your security staff to focus on more
strategic initiatives. Turn on more of the
security features already integrated into
your solutions. Organisations typically
turn on only 30% of the security
features available to them. And keep
your software current. Unpatched or outdated software represents an attractive
attack surface for adversaries.
This is an exciting time in tech and
it’s about to get a whole lot more
interesting. Defending against the bad
guys has never been as challenging
and as rewarding as it is now. Globally,
26% of organisations are facing
staffing shortages, and 35% are facing
expertise shortages with security jobs
growing at 12 times the rate of the
overall job market, and three times the
rate of general IT. There truly has never
been a better time to consider a career
in cyber security.
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