Small and medium-sized businesses should look to build a SOC that meets their needs at a price point that fits within their overall security expenditures.
Brand impersonation attacks are a real and imminent threat across the cybersecurity landscape. Security sits down with Mimecast's Amber Johanson to discuss this cyber threat.
As the cyber insurance industry continues to evolve, an industry-standard security framework will serve as a critical guiding light for companies and insurance providers.
Even if you are not mandated to adhere to any particular regulations, it still makes sense for your business to be proactive in managing risk. All frameworks include guidance for good cybersecurity hygiene, such as effective inventory and asset management, contingency planning, personnel security, system access control, and staff awareness and training, to list a few. To prepare for the aftermath of a cyber incident, frameworks provide incident response guidelines you can follow to recover and try to limit the damage. Establishing a framework can not only help your organization follow best practices but also bring rigorous cyber discipline to your organization.
2018 brought a lot of change to small business. In the wake of many new cybersecurity threats and breaches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Cybersecurity Act was passed into law in August 2018, and it requires NIST to provide cybersecurity resources to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to help protect them against future problems.
