Cyberspace is in perpetual motion, ever-evolving with new developments on a daily basis, and whilst these new technology developments present organisations with exciting opportunities, they also can present potential risks and consequences. There is rarely a day that passes where cyber-attacks are not in the headlines and we are not reminded about hackers’ capabilities in identifying, targeting, and attacking organisations to get hold of valuable information.
Organisations around the globe are having issues with effectively detecting and responding to these new cyber threats. They suffer from a lack of 24/7 coverage and security operations expertise, which allows these threats to go unnoticed and for hackers to camp out in your environment for extended periods of time. One of the key issues appearing in the cybersecurity industry is an operational effectiveness problem that often results in high-profile breaches. Security teams are just not able to keep up with these evolving threats. There are over 3000 cybersecurity tools available in the industry today and trying to build some kind of context and identify where you are at risk is becoming increasingly difficult for an in-house security team to deal with.
Many organisations know that they are in need of more effective security to ensure their cyberspace is secure, but where do they start?
Firstly, organisations need to be able to filter out the noise and make sense of what many of their security tools may be trying to tell them. It’s possible to achieve this by sending all telemetry to a cloud platform that is built specifically for security data storage, data enrichment and analysis. Context is required.
Secondly, they should add external expertise that’s available 24/7 because threat actors don’t only operate during an organisation’s business hours. Organisations needs experts in monitoring, threat hunting, and triage in order to identify and respond to threats, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations as quickly and efficiently as possible. Expertise should be available at all times.
Thirdly, but certainly not least, as cybersecurity is something that requires continuous evaluation, organisations need to frequently review their cybersecurity posture, working with people who understand their environment well and can recommend strategic actions to strengthen it. Security posture needs to be continuously evaluated.
The key to ensuring operational effectiveness for your security is by leveraging always-available human expertise. Cybersecurity is extremely difficult to keep pace with because attackers are evolving, adapting and developing new techniques to surpass the security defences organisations are putting in place.
Endemik has partnered with Arctic Wolf, a market leader in security operations. Their cloud-native platform provides a foundation for a team of experts to work as an extension to your team through their Concierge Delivery Model, providing 24/7 monitoring, detection, response, and risk management.
Their well-structured platform works with an organisation’s existing technology stack to help discover, profile assets and collect data from multiple arrays of different sources, giving you broader visibility into your environment. With monitoring being conducted every second, advanced threats are picked up and resolved quickly. The service highlights suspicious activity, manages logs and provides responses to incidents within minutes. It also helps with remediation to ensure the threat is neutralised and nothing has returned to become a threat again. With root cause analysis, it gets to the cause and further customises rules and workflows to harden your posture. And lastly, their concierge delivery model provides frequent human interactions to ensure you are up to date with what is happening in your environment and continuously improving your security posture.
In conclusion, for an organisation to remedy their cybersecurity operational effectiveness challenges it’s quickly becoming a requirement to engage expertise with external and expert service providers like Arctic Wolf. In the future, it’s only with this level of expertise that organisations will be able to maintain a security posture that’s sufficient to defend against today’s threats. Contact us to learn more about Arctic Wolf’s Security Operations Platform.
