Back To Basics

Mahmoud Mounir, Regional Director, Secureworks Mea, Shares Insights Into The Fundamental Cybersecurity Aspects That Organisations Should Keep In Mind.

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Cybercriminals continue to leverage and coalesce around tactics that they know will work, because organisations today still struggle to tackle the basics of cybersecurity, according to Secureworks’ 2019 Incident Response Insights Report.

Here are five recommendations that organisations should focus on to improve their security posture:

1. Choose a framework

It is easy for organizations to examine incidents and their ensuing root cause analyses in isolation and develop pointin-time solutions to address the issues. But building a security program around an existing industry standard framework ensures that the organization addresses many of the security gaps, and not just the systems that have already been compromised. While there are a number of frameworks to choose from, the practical and pragmatic CIS Controls framework includes straightforward guidance for defenders.

2. Implement multifactor authentication (MFA)