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3 Essential Cybersecurity Strategies for 2020

CDW Research Hub

There are also an increasing number of tools and strategies recommended to handle this challenge. Cut through the complexity with these three crucial strategies for improved cybersecurity. Identify and reduce your cloud vendor risk. The reality is that you can’t outsource risk and your best defense is a strong offense.

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2 Innovations That Can Tip the Balance in Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Software-based advanced analytics — including big data, machine learning, behavior analytics, deep learning and, eventually, artificial intelligence. But improved use of automation — combined with software-based advanced analytics — can help level the playing field. They are: Innovations in automation.

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Why You Need to Get on the Zero Trust Network Access Express Lane

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are rethinking their strategies and increasingly considering another way to make access to private applications faster, easier, and more secure through Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). The biggest risk with VPNs is that malware can get into a user’s system, effortlessly ride the VPN and potentially infect the entire enterprise.

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How Advances in Cloud Security Can Help with Ransomware

CIO Business Intelligence

Another out-of-date belief is that frequent backups are the best recovery strategy. With a Security Service Edge (SSE) strategy that includes data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities, security teams will be able to block data exfiltration automatically, thereby preventing the common double-extortion threats from ransomware nowadays.

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How to handle a ransomware attack 

IBM Big Data Hub

Organizations also rely on advanced endpoint security tools like firewalls, VPNs, and multi-factor authentication as part of a broader data protection strategy to defend against data breaches.

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Why Ransomware Groups Are Scarier Than Their Attacks

CDW Research Hub

Does this mean that the risks of ransomware have been overhyped? Our security experts work with you to validate your tools and processes and uncover gaps that increase your risk. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA). Advancing your ransomware protection should include behavioral detection methodologies.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

They can use AI and data-driven cybersecurity technology to address these risks. These vendor-supplied disaster recovery plans allow companies that lack IT proficiency to have an effective recovery strategy that does not require technical know-how or complicated configurations and dashboards. Breach and attack simulation. In summary.

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