When you decide to buy a car, you don’t wait to add insurance. In fact, you’re required to have insurance before you even drive the car off the lot. Well, your cybersecurity safety is no different. Watch this video as Aaron talks about some simple ways to start protecting your systems and discusses exactly when you should start a cybersecurity program.
It’s important to protect your systems with effective safeguards. This does not mean you have to acquire the most expensive or intricate security equipment. Secentric offers many different levels of protection to suit the needs of any size organization.
At Secentric, we offer customer support and the opportunity to try out our products. We also have free starter policies to get you started on your security journey. The key isn’t how much security you have, but getting security into place.
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Video Transcript
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:08 Getting Started
In my years of security consulting, one of the unfortunate circumstances I’ve come across many times are folks who are talking about security, they recognize some sort of need to start implementing security safeguards. Sometimes they understand that they need basic protections. Other times, they’re dealing with compliance challenges.
But a common theme is is they’re trying to do everything at once. They are thinking that they have to go out and roll out a complete security program, a very exhaustive security policy on day one, and they get lost in analysis. They get lost in trying to figure out how to prioritize actions and get it all accomplished.
And the unfortunate circumstance is that many times, I’ve had these conversations with folks that months later after still doing nothing are contacting me because they’ve actually been breached, especially these days with ransomware which transcends industries. The likelihood of a breach, the fact that every organization can be a target, this is more and more common.
1:08 Getting Started
Because of this, I tell people all the time. Don’t worry about getting it all, right? Don’t worry about what the end state needs to look like today. Don’t worry about too much planning upfront. There are things you can start doing immediately to start mitigating risk, but the important thing is is that you start doing what you can right now. Work with the resources that you have available.
Don’t worry about getting a comprehensive security policy in place. Start rolling out the directives that are going to have an immediate impact on business risk. And if you start this today, the nice thing is is that over time, you’ll see that you’ve made incremental gains, you’ll see that you’ve started to implement a security posture that’s going to allow you to withstand today’s common threats and give you a more resilient business.
To help you in this process, Secentric’s free cybersecurity starter policy has some simple directives that will allow you to understand the kinds of meaningful actions you can take today to start you on your security program journey. Check it out.
