Learn about the risks of connected devices and get key tips on how to better secure them.
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As remote work continues and industries embrace connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, under-resourced IT departments must stay ahead of the potential security threats these connected devices pose to their company’s network.
Unsecured Wi-Fi networks, personal devices, weak passwords and phishing/smishing attempts on devices can pose a serious risk. This is especially the case for small and medium-sized organizations, who often can't protect or respond against sophisticated hackers and other advanced cyber threats on their own.
To help these organizations take the first step to better security, here are a few keys to effectively and efficiently secure an abundance of connected devices or other IoT-enabled solutions:
1. Fix Visibility Gaps
Organizations need to see their entire IT ecosystem to find potential gaps and vulnerabilities in hardware, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and employee-owned devices. This means having a centralized platform to have visibility into all endpoints, the network, cloud, mobile devices and email accounts.
2. Keep Security Awareness Top of Mind
It’s important to instill a “security-first” culture throughout an entire company. To do this, talk to and train all employees on security best practices as well as the latest social engineering strategies that are made to fool them into falling for phishing schemes or downloading malware.
3. Ensure There is a Plan
Lower cyber risk with a solid incident response plan that’s documented and tested to deal with the inevitable times that attackers still manage to break through defenses.
4. Leverage MDR Effectively
Managed detection and response (MDR) makes it possible to find and respond to threats in a distributed environment. Organizations need a combination of proactive measures, such as AI integrated with human threat hunters and 24/7 protection across endpoints, network, mobile devices, cloud, identity and email accounts.
Why MDR?
MDR offers several key benefits that complement networks with many connected devices:
- Removes the burden from end users to find and react to suspicious activity with a full-stack cybersecurity solution.
- Provides a real-time and holistic picture of the IT ecosystem and its users with metrics.
- Enables your IT team to focus on everything else they need to do.
ActZero delivers a powerful and affordable full-stack cybersecurity service to protect organizations against cyber attacks. Its mission is to bring excellent cyber defense to businesses at a fair price. Plus, customers trust ActZero, renewing their one-year contracts at a 94% rate — which helped ActZero win the SC Award for best MDR service, as well as appear in Gartner’s leading market reports on AI for cybersecurity.
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