We’ve been working in this field for over 30 years now, and we’ve put together some pretty solid assessments of the average business and how it responds to cybersecurity challenges.

So what’s the reality? What powers company responses to network threats?

Let’s go over some of the basics involved in three fundamental cybersecurity principles that will help your company to plan a roadmap and put key protections in place.

Identity and Access Management

Sometimes IAM doesn’t get the attention that it deserves as a key component of a cybersecurity plan.

For example, sometimes companies discuss authentication but don’t consider micromanaging individual access accounts.

Think about IAM as something that is designed on a need-to-know basis. Do entry-level employees need the same information as people at the top? And how does change protect data more fully?

IAM systems can present a thinner attack surface to hackers and decrease the likelihood that companies run into cybersecurity problems further down the line. For that reason, they’re a good thing to include in consultations with professional firms. This will help to prepare systems for the long haul.

Network Segmentation

This one also doesn’t get the attention that it should.

Today, as cybersecurity resources have advanced, more businesses are talking about security beyond the perimeter. But how many are talking about network segmentation, an essential feature of this kind of approach?

Network segmentation means that you’re creating gateways in the internal core network so that malware or hacking efforts don’t just roam around the system freely.

A way to start thinking about this is with browser isolation. Think about the practice of creating a digital vestibule in your browser activity or the client/server interactions that happen in web user sessions. Malware can’t get through, because it’s trapped in this vestibule and contained and dealt with.

This is a powerful way to enhance network security, but it sometimes gets overlooked in the shuffle.

Threat Detection and Response

Sometimes malware, Trojans, and other threats get through, despite your best efforts at full perimeter security approaches.

So with that in mind, companies need ways to mitigate and do damage control.

Professionals talk about dwell time and its effect on containment and threat isolation.

Think about these things as you design systems – and get help from CrafTech to make your business systems all that they can be.