A comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is absolutely essential in today’s connected world. From a business perspective, securing the organization’s digital assets has the obvious benefit of a reduced risk of loss, theft or destruction, as well as the potential need to pay a ransom to regain control of company data or systems. In preventing or quickly remediating cyberattacks, the organization also minimizes the impact of such events on business operations.

Finally, when an organization takes steps to deter adversaries, they are essentially protecting the brand from the reputational harm that is often associated with cyber events — especially those that involve the loss of customer data.

Below are some recommendations we offered in our 2023 Global Threat Report to help organizations improve their security posture and ensure cybersecurity readiness:

  • Protect All Workloads: You must secure all critical areas of enterprise risk, including endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
  • Know Your Adversary: CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence identifies today’s bad actors and exposes their playbook to enable security teams to proactively optimize preventions, strengthen defenses and accelerate incident response.
  • Be Ready When Every Second Counts: Security teams of all sizes must invest in speed and agility for their daily and tactical decision making by automating preventive, detection, investigative and response workflows with integrated cyber threat intelligence directly observed from the front lines.
  • Adopt Zero Trust: Because today’s global economy requires data to be accessible from anywhere at any time, it is critical to adopt a Zero Trust model. The CrowdStrike Zero Trust solution connects the machine to the identity and the data to deliver full Zero Trust protection.
  • Monitor the Criminal Underground: Adversaries congregate to collaborate using a variety of hidden messaging platforms and dark web forums. Leverage digital risk monitoring tools like Falcon Intelligence Recon to monitor imminent threats to your brand, identities or data.
  • Invest in Elite Threat Hunting: The combination of technology with expert threat hunters is absolutely mandatory to see and stop the most sophisticated threats. Top-quality managed services such as Falcon Complete and Falcon OverWatch can help you close the growing cyber skills gap with the expertise, resources and coverage needed to augment your team.
  • Build Comprehensive Cybersecurity Training Program: User awareness programs should be initiated to combat the continued threat of phishing and related social engineering techniques.