In 2020, the dark web has become a household name, or at least most people know what it refers to. But do you know what dark-web scanning means?
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 also has been a big year for working remotely. Concerns about doing so safely and securely have many businesses and their employees talking about the importance of Risk Assessment, Zero Trust, Breach Defense, and Threat Detection.
Here is a rundown of these trending IT terms and what they mean to you:
Risk Assessment
A risk assessment identifies your information assets, such as network systems, mobile devices, hardware, and intellectual property that could be compromised in a cyber-attack. It then details the risks that could impact each of those assets.
At Emerge IT Services, we perform a thorough evaluation of risk and select controls to treat the risks. It is crucial to continually monitor and assess the risk environment.
Breach Defense
Simply put, breach defense is the process of keeping an attacker from accessing devices and data across all security layers. We are a Cisco partner, and an expert in using their breach defense solutions, which automatically share threat intelligence to keep you ahead of breach attempts.
Cisco solutions work together in breach defense, including Cisco Umbrella, AMP for Endpoints, ThreatGrid, Duo, Stealthwatch, and more.
Zero Trust
In today’s cyber-security environment, in which IoT devices and external data abound, security needs to be designed with a zero-trust approach. This means that it trusts nothing outside or inside of an organization.
Your network and the threats that are inevitable are constantly changing and often invisible. There is not one perimeter that will protect everything.
Zero-trust security secures data and access across the network, based on parameters, such as location and user credentials. It inspects and logs all traffic and monitors all patterns.
Threat Detection
Threat detection means the continuous process of monitoring the network to identify malicious activity that could compromise the network. When a threat is detected, immediate actions need to be taken to neutralize the threat before data is breached. This is easier said than done, and depending on the size of your network, can involve many components.
The best defensive barrier will be monitored by experts continuously because threats are ongoing.
Dark Web Scanning
The dark web is a network of sites that you cannot access through a regular search engine. Sites on the dark web are encrypted to hide their locations.
Much of the dark web is devoted to selling stolen financial and personal information. And if your information ends up on dark web sites, an identity thief could get it.
Products like Experian’s Dark Web Scan claim to search the dark web for your personal information so you will know if your information has been compromised. But many review sites point out that it’s impossible to scan the entire dark web.
Regulatory Compliance
All businesses have to comply with regulations. With the advent of electronic medical records (EMR) and their management systems, medical institutions have felt a particular challenge.
Offices that do not take steps to adapt to these changing industry standards could be hit with compliance fines that break their budget. There is an array of regulations put into place by HIPAA, HITECH, PCI, and other laws, and if the personal information for your office’s patients is stolen by hackers, your business could be charged somewhere between $100 to $50,000 per record.
Consult An Expert
Network security has to be as comprehensive as it can be.
Emerge offers a list of security services that include: risk assessment, endpoint security, firewalls and VPN service, email security, disaster recovery plans, data backup and restoration, incident investigation, security awareness training, vulnerability audits, intrusion detection and prevention, and a lot more.
We can also make sure that you are up-to-date with regulatory compliance.
To learn more about how Emerge can assess your company’s needs and design a protection plan for your network, give us a call at 859-746-1030.