5 Questions To Ask To Help Fill Gaps in Your Security
Maintaining a multi-layered approach to your organization’s security is crucial to an effective security strategy, but also can also require a lot of juggling. This means that sometimes gaps in your security get overlooked.
Asking the right questions can help you to identify potential security risks and address them before they become major threats.
Here are five key questions to get you started on filling gaps in your security.
1 Do you have an incident recovery plan?
In the event that you actually experience a security breech, having an incident/disaster recovery plan already in place makes the recovery process more streamlined, efficient, and cost effective.
An incident recovery plan gives you and your IT team predetermined action steps, policies, and best practices so that when disaster strikes you don’t have to develop a plan from scratch in the middle of a crisis. This can help to reduce stress in the moment and gives you a path to remediation that leaves your organization stronger after the attack, not weaker.
2 Are you using multi-factor authentication?
Multi-factor authentication, or 2FA, provides an additional layer of protection to accounts and applications in addition to usernames and passwords. Even if a hacker gains access to a user’s login information, they would still need the 2FA verification to get into your network.
To minimize risk, you should have 2FA on all applications.
3 Do you have email encryption?
Email encryption is an added layer to your email security that can help to keep sensitive email messages secure.
If you have email encryption available, then it is important that your users know when and how to use it. Otherwise, it won’t be effective.
4 Are your backups accurate and protected?
Having backups of your network can help you restore your systems in the event of a security incident.
You need to ensure that your backups are complete, stored off-site, and separate from the production network. That way they can stay protected and accurate if they are ever needed.
5 Do you have a data loss prevention strategy?
A data loss prevention strategy puts systems in place to minimize the loss, leakage, corruption, and misuse of data in your network.
It helps your IT team adhere to your organization’s data policy and any external regulations, as well as keeping the data in your network secure.
We can help you answer all those questions, and more, with our new Trust but Verify security audit, a comprehensive security checklist to help you identify gaps in your organization’s security.
With Telcion’s Trust but Verify Audit, we provide you a list of questions that help us understand what kind of security features you think you have. Then we sit down with your designated IT professional to verify these features are working as expected. After our audit is complete, we share a report of our findings.
Interested in learning more about the Trust but Verify Audit and what questions you need to be asking? Email sales@telcion.com and one of our experienced team members will reach out to you.