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Cyber Resiliency

  • RESPONSE & RECOVERY
  • DATA RESILIENCE
  • OPERATIONAL CONTINUITY
  • SECURITY ALIGNMENT

IT and Security Leaders continue to be concerned by the threat of malware and ransomware attacks. Infrastructure complexity across system and data landscapes (both on-prem and in the cloud) can make it difficult to protect enterprise data at scale while potentially increasing the available attack surfaces.

Although there is an increased investment across security and data protection solutions, the scope of recent ransomware outages disrupted global business with major revenue loss due to downtime. The result was millions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity – plus the risk of regulatory fines and higher cyber insurance rates.

F3 Technology Partners Can Assist Your Organization

With the increased focus on cyber-attacks and cyber-resiliency,  it can be overwhelming to know “where  to start”.  A guided approach can bring attention to the many areas that can benefit from an inspection of incident response or cyber-resilience plans.

Consider the following “areas” of focus.  F3 can help assess which operational or organizational areas may benefit from improvements to incident response or cyber-resilience plans.

Does your organization’s incident response plan include rapid analysis and correlation after detecting a suspicious event?

  • Can your security team or SOC quickly determine the source and impact of cyber events?

Do your security and data management solutions that work with your modern data protection architecture?

  • Is there a strategy for ensuring that data is safe and clean before recovery?

Does the existing incident response plan take advantage of the resiliency provided by modern data protection systems? 

For an existing Incident Response Plan:

  • How do you discern an outage from an attack?
  • Where is the threat? How did the threat gain entry?
  • What is the scope of threat?
  • Is there persistence? If so, how is it being maintained?
  • Are clear remediation steps understood?

If you experienced an attack today, how would you recover from it?

  • Can you recover critical business operations in minutes vs days?
  • In the event of an attack, how would you detect threats across your data landscape, and ensure that data is clean before restoring?
  • What is your organization’s tolerance to downtime and data loss due to natural and engineered disasters, including ransomware?

Can your security teams and tools communicate with your IT tools and teams?

  • Do you have a digital jump bag?
  • Have you tested your plan for network isolation?
  • Have you tested the processes used to create a clean room for medium and high severity scenarios?

Are your Business Continuity plans up-to-date?  Do they include cyber-resilience response?

  • Ensure that the communication is clear and precise for the impacted business units. Centralize and coordinate ongoing status communication as well as post-attack messaging internally and externally.
  • Examine and update the contingency plan that is used to keep operating during an outage. Make sure that the guidance and processes are current.

How Would F3 Technology Partners Start An Evaluation?

After an initial meeting, F3 will provide a questionnaire to you.  Based on your responses,  F3 can assist with identifying and prioritizing potential areas of improvement in these cross-functional areas:

  • Identification of potential gaps for data protection processes and coverage.
  • Validation of corporate compliance and governance with data protection principles and processes.
  • Integration of Security Operations Center (SOC) principles and processes with advanced data protection such as threat hunting, instant recovery and recovery response.

After prioritizing areas of improvement, F3 can assist with projects to improve with cyber-resilience response.  Examples include:

  • Ransomware response simulation workshops.
  • Incident Response Plan updates.
  • Recovery plan testing.
  • Integration of data protection threat hunting and reporting.
  • Integration of advanced data protection with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) capabilities.

TECHNICAL ADOPTION MANAGER (TAM)

Our team of experts are relentlessly focused on helping organizations unlock the full potential of their technology. We drive adoption, accelerate utilization, and ensure your teams fully leverage enterprise solutions. Our Technical Account Managers (TAMs) serve as trusted strategic advisors who are deeply engaged in understanding your business goals and IT landscape to deliver impactful and measurable outcomes.

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