Prioritize Your Biggest Security Threats
“There is no such thing as 100 percent security,” said Dan Schiappa, chief product officer at Arctic Wolf. “It’s a hard fact to hear, but the sooner you accept that, the faster you can prioritize each threat and deploy an incident management solution,” he said. These solutions run in the background of your organization’s infrastructure and detect threats. Schiappa said to prioritize the biggest threats first when your team is patching certain vulnerabilities. Trying to solve all problems at once will backfire. “You could be looking at a vicious cycle of continuous incident engagements,” he said.
Train Your Team to Identify Security Threats in Context
“The biggest thing IT leaders need is context into their security solutions,” Schiappa said. “Gaps in security don’t just happen coincidentally. There’s always a connection to something else,” he said. That’s where security analysts come in. Analysts can find the missing links and diagnose security threats.
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For companies with fewer analysts, consider training staff on security protocols that include hacker detection behavior. Companies can use any recent attack as a teaching tool. “Re-create the attack from the beginning to determine where the hacker got in,” Schiappa said. Proceeding step by step like this removes ambiguity from a cyberattack, Schiappa explained.
