Endpoint Detection and Response monitors all of your endpoints and networks to control and freeze out potential threats.
If something happens, an immediate response to shut down all internet access and stop further intrusion is critical.
An MSP can guide you through creating a Business Continuity plan.
Six things to do to protect against a ransomware attack
Six things to do to protect against a ransomware attack or a data breach of any type.
Watch out for who and how individuals can access your network, technology, and data. Limit access to data via third party devices and workers. These access limitations cover a variety of actors.
First, employees who use their own devices for work. Because their devices may not be under your control, the virus protection software may not be up-to-date. Additionally, it is likely that individuals who are using their own devices for personal reasons may be accessing a broader range of sites that are not work-related and may be more likely to be corrupted.
Second, non-employees such as contractors. Because you have less control over their activity (they are not employees) , they may not be as well-trained as your employees on how to avoid falling prey to phishing scams and similar tricks.
Next, let’s move onto more sophisticated tools that you're going to need to employ. These ones typically involve technological expertise and time commitments that SMBs usually don’t have the resources for.
- Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - EDR can monitor all of your endpoints and networks to control and freeze out potential threats. Protection against viruses such as ransomware needs to go beyond the virus protection software on the company laptop. When correctly configured and maintained, these can protect your network, servers, and other vulnerable points of entry.
- 24/7 monitoring - If something happens, an immediate response to shut down all internet access and stop further intrusion is critical. This means monitoring your entire technology infrastructure on a real-time basis. MSPs have the capacity and resources to do this. Only large organizations have the depth of IT resources to do in-house 24/7 monitoring
- Backups - Although obvious, backups are a bit more complex than loading everything onto an external hard drive every night. An MSP can advise how to best create a backup process that will provide clean backups that can be used if your data is subject to extortion.
Also, finally, have a BC/DR plan
A business continuity plan is a total blueprint for how a business or organization ensures that its output- products or services- will continue to be provided with as little interruption as possible despite a disaster.
Some people may think that these are only written to handle natural disasters or power outages but being prepared for anything which threatens output–for example, the loss of key leadership personnel– should be in a business continuity plan. One of the biggest reasons you may need a BC/DR plan is to keep yourself in operation in case of a cyber attack. A BC/DR involves a thorough analysis of all the areas where your business can be threatened. It requires a complete review of your IT operations and infrastructure. Generally, this is a process best left to outside consultants such as an MSP. Once a thorough analysis has been done, a full plan will be designed to address both how you will stay operational with as little business interruption as possible and how you will restore everything to its pre-emergency status.
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If something happens, an immediate response to shut down all internet access and stop further intrusion is critical? This means monitoring your entire technology infrastructure on a real-time basis.
