The effects of a security compromise can be devastating, with the average total cost between £2m and £3m, and many small companies going out of business. Protect your business from cyber threats and ensure its sustainability, by developing and implementing a strategy, and ensuring an ongoing commitment to protecting your company’s and customer’s data.
Cyber Security
Protect your business and customers against cyber-attacks, cyber criminals, and exploitation of systems and data
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Reputation and Cyber Security
Effective Cyber Security can ensure you keep the interests of your clients and customers in mind. Data breaches impact your business and customers. Prioritising the protection of your customers’ information improves your reputation, generates customer loyalty, and ensures long-term customer relationships.”
Cyber Security and Bottom-line Benefits
Data breaches can lead to lost profits from a smaller customer-base, alongside fines and lawsuits. Companies that invest in ongoing improvements in their security measures minimise their risk of unexpected profit losses.
Competitive Advantage from Cyber Security
Cyber security helps you protect company information that gives you a competitive advantage. A robust risk management strategy includes ensuring that you have a full understanding of your information assets, and the handling and processing of these assets applies appropriate protection.
Cyber Awareness and Engagement
Cyber security can increase employee confidence. You are likely to hold very sensitive employee information, such as bank details, dates of birth, addresses, and perhaps even medical details. Companies that that demonstrate a focus on cyber security are likely to have more engaged, positive and productive employees.
Cyber Resilience
A well structured cyber security strategy and operation, means that your IT team and partners are less reactive to crisis and can provide more resilient technology controls. Recognising that security and risk management is everyone’s responsibility can foster a more collaborative working environment between IT and the wider business.
Cyber Security and Productivity
Modern cyber security helps you stay productive and resilient. Applying an integrated security approach allows your employees to focus on critical tasks, while your security systems work in the background to protect your assets.
Can cyber security work from home?
The pandemic changed the way people work and how they want to engage in the workplace. Remote and hybrid working is largely normal now, and is crucial to attracting and retaining the best talent. However, this change has brought complex challenges to organisations, including the management of risk. For example: your employees could be accessing sensitive data through unsafe Wi-Fi networks, and could be vulnerable to malicious actors; there is worrying trend in employees transferring files and data between work and personal devices; they may be ignoring good physical security practices in public places; or, using weak passwords on their home infrastructure.
Your employees may be unknowingly putting your company’s and customer’s data at risk. Protection requires a mature cyber security programme that communicates clear policy, ensures company-wide awareness, adopts good-practice security standards, and implements appropriate controls at all levels.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.
Stephane Nappo
There is no such thing at 100% cyber secure, and we must manage cyber risks iteratively
There isn’t a single approach, technology or strategy that will provide a 100% guarantee of security. At some point someone will find a way to bypass a particular defence, and so relying on one layer of defence is no longer adequate.
Establishing security measures that provide multiple layers of defence against identified risks is your best approach, and moreover these measures should be thoughtful and proactive, and span people, process and technology.
This can be achieved through the development of a cyber security strategy, and the implementation of a mature, and continuously adapting and improving, cyber security programme.
You need to have a wide perspective of your organisation’s security defences, allowing you and your team to concentrate on growing your business.
Endpoint’s Cyber Security Process
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Cyber Security Strategy and Scope
The primary outcome of a security programme is the realisation of its strategy, goals and objectives. When aligned with the organisation and its risk appetite and operations, the security programme will be a business enabler. We will work with you to ensure strategic alignment with the rest of the organisation. With a focus on, value delivery.
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Cyber Security Roadmap
We will develop the key steps required to achieve your security strategy. This will consist of the various tasks, projects and milestones that will result in the creation and implementation of capabilities that contribute to a reduction of cyber risk.
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Cyber Security Governance
We can help you apply a security governance model that fits with your wider governance approach. This will provide an effective approach for establishing and overseeing priority cyber security initiatives to maximise success.
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Risk Assessment and Risk Analysis
Applying a best-practice risk management approach, we will help you to establish the organisation’s risk appetite, identify risk, establish appropriate risk treatment decisions, and enact change to bring risks to an acceptable level.
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Cyber Security Assessment
An essential function in security management is a set of activities that determine if the appropriate safeguards are in place and working properly. These activities range from informal assessment and review, to highly structured security audits. These are essential regular activities.
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Cyber Security Policy
The development of security policy is a foundation of any organisation’s security programme. Policy defines the principles and required actions for the organisation to properly protect its assets, employees and customers.
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Cyber Security Management
There are numerous operational activities that take place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. These require the implementation of a highly organised security operations function.
Get the most from your Cyber Security Programme
Security-related risks are reduced by 70% when businesses invest in a formal cyber security programme, and invest in employee training and awareness.
Understand your cyber threat landscape
You must have an understanding of the types of cyber-attacks that organisations face today, and which types are more likely to impact your organisation. Have your competitors or customers experienced cyber incidents recently, and what were the threat types?
Understanding what threats you will face in the future and the likely severity of each of those threats is key to building an effective cyber security strategy.
Assess your cyber security maturity
As part of establishing a direction, and building a roadmap and strategy, there must be an assessment of the current-state and cyber security maturity level.
This can be undertaken against a standard framework such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), or a specific cyber security standard (NIST, COBIT, etc.), to assess how mature your organisation is against a range of different categories and subcategories, from policies and governance, to security technologies and incident recovery capabilities.
Determine how to improve your cyber security programme
Once you have determined the security strategic objectives and policies that are aligned to the wider goals of the organisation, you will need to determine the tools, standards and approach to achieve those objectives.
This will involve presenting options to the appropriate security governance group, with clarity on levels of risk mitigation, costs, and the impact on business operations that the change is likely to have.
Evolve
An effective cyber security programme requires continuous review and improvement, to address vulnerabilities to ever changing threats.
Everyone in the organisation has a role to play in mitigating security issues and improving your cyber security programme. As your risk profile changes, so must your cyber security culture.
There are only two types of organizations: Those that have been hacked and those that don’t know it yet!
John Chambers
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