Today, cybersecurity is vital to the safety and security of your company and its data. Developing a proper risk assessment strategy for cyberattacks is about as necessary as breathing. Not only can an incident get you in a lot of trouble with your customers, lowering your reputation, but it can also get you into legal…
There’s a reason it’s said that what gets measured gets managed. In order to successfully achieve a goal, you have to be able to measure progress. It’s the only way to know if you’re heading in the right direction.
That’s why any security operations team worth their salt will be paying close attention to both their mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) metrics when it comes to resolving incidents.
The average dwell time for attackers still sits somewhere within the ranges of 100 – 140 days and frankly, we can do better. Security operations teams need to be fanatical when it comes to lowering these metrics within their organizations.
Significantly reducing dwell time, MTTD and MTTR starts with an understanding of attacks. From there, you need multiple groups working together in harmony enabled by technology to automate and orchestrate incident response processes.
We get asked this question frequently, “What the difference between a vulnerability assessment and penetration assessment?”. It’s a great question and one we’d like to shed a bit more light on throughout this blog. Both engagements are aimed towards shedding light on areas within your cybersecurity posture that need improvement. We regularly perform vulnerability assessments and penetration tests for our clients tasked by regulatory compliance to adhere to a particular standard or to increase their security posture. Both of these tests play an important role within your organization by enlightening you on areas of weakness and decreasing risk from adversaries.
This months podcast features host Larry Bianculli speaking with guest CISO Agim Bracovic from BNB Bank, as well as our very own Matthew Pascucci, cybersecurity practice manager, at CCSI, on Incident Response. How do you build a team of qualified IR resources with current staff? How do you prepare and train an incident response team?…
On Data Privacy Day earlier this year, CCSI briefly discussed the implications of The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is essentially a set of rules imposed by the European Union to give individuals primary control over their personal data. This means that companies will now have to disclose or delete the personal data they hold.…
Zero-trust networks are often deemed compromised and untrusted, making authentication variables essential to security. Expert Matthew Pascucci explains a zero-trust security model. In the past, we’ve done a great job of making networks accessible. But with this increased availability, we’ve opened the door for attackers to move more easily around networks. However, as we introduce…
Two weeks ago CCSI held its first annual CISO Roundtable to discuss cybersecurity trends, issues and solutions. The conversation was focused on how local CISO’s are currently handling security from an executive level. In attendance were ten cybersecurity leaders on Long Island who brought years of experience and expertise to the discussion. The attendees were…
We’ve recently seen turnover in the government with a void in the Cybersecurity leadership and it led me to think about how this is being handled in enterprises nationwide. Cybersecurity is more than just technology, hackers, and fancy toys. It’s also about strategy, leadership, and team building, which needs to come first before the implementation of…
Several years back, organizations didn’t even think about users signing up for their own applications and tools. The fact that each application required access to resources that were beyond their control kept this problem bottled up. Storage, compute, and network configurations were all IT’s domain and so IT needed to be consulted before a new…
This past week Matthew Pascucci, Cybersecurity Practice Manager at CCSI participated in a Cyber Roundtable. Check out this article about the roundtable discussion by Teresa Varela-Lauper. Dr. James Stanger is CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist. He’s a CompTIA super hero in my book….traveling all over the world, speaking at events, impacting and representing the IT industry…