Financial impact
Cyber resilience reduces financial burden of a breach by decreasing the likelihood and impact of attacks.
Put cyber resilienceinto action
Go from responding to incidents to stopping intrusions that disrupt operations.
Why leading teams are embracing cyber resilience
Cyber resilience is an organization's ability to anticipate, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks while continuing to operate effectively.
Reputation and trust
Organizations that demonstrate strong cyber resilience earn the trust of their customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Regulatory compliance
Cyber resilience is closely tied to regulatory compliance requirements.
Competitive advantage
Customers, investors, and partners choose organizations that demonstrate the ability to withstand cyber attacks.
The five step process for cyber resilience
While there are many variations – like Gartner’s ® Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM) and NIST’s Five Pillars – there is alignment in approaches around core risk management concepts.
Focus
- Set a narrow and actionable focus for this iteration of the cyber resilience process.
- The process can be scoped on an attack surface (ie., external-facing assets, cloud assets), by threat vector (ie., lookalike domains, insecure emails), or by business application (ie., brand abuse, executive impersonation).
- Stay focused and avoid the temptation to try to do everything.
Action plan
- Begin with the end in mind.
- Set forth an action plan for when you find security issues related to your focus.
- Scenario plan, gain organizational alignment on resources and timeline.
- Use if/then statements like “if we find certificates that are expired we will renew them within 24 hours.”
Verify
- Confirm the risk or threat is truly exploitable through red teaming, penetration testing or other validation methods. 85 percent of security issues in backlogs cannot be exploited.
- Validate the time investment for remediation
Prioritize
- Risks that are in scope and have been validated as truly exploitable should be prioritized based on business impact, likelihood of exploit and severity.
- Leverage information from automated tooling and organizational expertise to build a prioritized inventory of items to be remediated.
Remediate
- Focus on the business impact, not the number of issues fixed.
- Use automated fixes like patches and upgrades in addition to manual remediations for non-patchable exposures.
- Communicate effectively about the impact of the fixes through non-technical language.
Build cyber resilience with Red Sift
The Red Sift Pulse Platform equips security teams with proactive, continuous, automated cybersecurity intelligence – which is which is why its used by 1,000+ security teams around the globe.
Proactive
Remediate risk before an active threat emerges.
Continuous
See your defenses and emerging risks in real-time – not after the event.
Automatic
Drive operational efficiency at scale across your security team.
