Cybersecurity Team

From childhood to teenage, you grew up hearing stories about good vs evil battles. You decided to join the forces of good and fight against evil and look for an opportunity to do so. Instead of fighting on the fronts against evil forces, you decided to pursue a career in cybersecurity and join a cybersecurity team.

Soon, you realized that the odds were stacked against you. Unlike your enemy, you are severely outnumbered, overworked, and have fewer resources at your disposal. Despite this, you must fight and win the battles on numerous fronts whether it is protecting the enterprise network or HOSTNOC dedicated server from malicious threat actors or preventing malware from getting into the system. 

That is the reason why most cybersecurity professionals are stressed out, quit their jobs or switch fields. According to a report by the Chartered Institute of Information Security, 82% of cybersecurity professionals think that cybersecurity budgets are not growing at the same pace as cybersecurity threats. 54% of cybersecurity professionals have left a cybersecurity job or is working with someone who is dealing with these issues

Thankfully for you, all hope is not lost. Even though making a career in cybersecurity is quite challenging but it is also rewarding at the same time. Combining that with the satisfaction of keeping evil forces at bay can be a huge motivating factor. Yes, work-related stress and burnout might come in your way but you can easily overcome it by working smarter not harder. How can cybersecurity teams work smarter, not harder? That is exactly what we will discuss in this article. 

In this article, you will learn about how your cybersecurity team can work smarter not harder.

Adaptability

The pace at which technology is evolving and hackers are getting smarter, forces cybersecurity teams to adapt to the changing situations. To do this effectively, it is important to look at cybersecurity as a business problem instead of a technological one. By making cybersecurity a part of business strategy, you can instill a security-first mindset in your company and get security ingrained in your organizational culture. By adopting the security-first mindset, you can put yourself in a much better position to protect your sensitive data from modern cybersecurity threats.

Tackle Business Complexity

The ever-widening skill gap in cybersecurity, complicated regulatory environments, and the growing number of cyberattacks launched by organized groups are challenges that are bothering cybersecurity professionals. Add to that the sudden rise in remote workers that they must secure, and you have a big challenge on their hands. All this adds to the business complexity.

 In some cases, this complexity grows to the point where businesses start doubting their ability to deal with such situations and start thinking that it is not their core competency. What they need to remedy the situation is a robust, proactive approach to cybersecurity. Business needs to constantly innovate and invest in improving its core competencies and cybersecurity maturity.

Re-evaluate Your Business Models

This pandemic has forced businesses to reevaluate their business models and practices they have been using for years and cybersecurity is no different. Both business and cybersecurity leaders should sit together and decide how their approach to cybersecurity will change as their business grows.

Here are some of the important questions you need to ask when recessing your cybersecurity model.

  • What cybersecurity tools and resources do you currently own?
  • Are these resources being put to good use?
  • Do you have the right staff with the right cybersecurity skills to take full advantage of available tools?
  • How can you efficiently use your cybersecurity budget?
  • Should you outsource to reduce the burden from your cybersecurity teams?

Embrace Automation

Thanks to the advancement in cybersecurity technology, businesses can harness the power of automation and free their resources from mundane tasks. As the number of devices connecting to your organization network skyrockets, so does the attack surface. This will give more targets to hit and makes it more difficult for businesses with manual processes to cope up with the challenge of securing thousands of devices. 

By leveraging automation, you can

  • Improve incident response with threat intelligence
  • Resolve security issues quickly
  • Eliminate time-consuming and tedious tasks
  • Enhances security operation management

Know Your Enemy

Most businesses adopt a reactive approach to cybersecurity which leads to their downfall. Instead of waiting for something to happen, you need to anticipate what could happen and have an incident response plan ready to deal with any unforeseen circumstances. This way, you won’t be caught off guard and you know exactly how to react in such a situation. 

Study and know as much as you can about threat actors, hackers, and cybercriminals. The more you know about them, the better placed you are at protecting your data against attacks they launch. Put yourself in the shoes of a cybercriminal and think like a hacker. Once you start thinking like a hacker, you can anticipate their next move and prepare for it in a much better way.

Conclusion

In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity industry, adaptability to ever-changing dynamics can help your team cope up with emerging threats in a much better way. This pandemic has forced businesses to rethink their approach to doing business and it is high time when businesses reevaluate their business models. Focus on what you have and how you can make the most of your existing cybersecurity infrastructure instead of acquiring new cybersecurity tools.

Embrace automation to quickly detect and neutralize cybersecurity threats. It can not only help you automate mundane and repetitive tasks but also help your cybersecurity team to focus on more critical tasks. Most importantly, you should adopt a proactive approach to cybersecurity. Last but certainly not least is to spend more time doing research on threat actors. The more you know about these cybercriminals, the better chance you have to anticipate their next move and protect your critical assets from cybersecurity attacks.

How does your cybersecurity team manage its workload? Let us know in the comments section below.

By Anurag Rathod

Anurag Rathod is an Editor of Appclonescript.com, who is passionate for app-based startup solutions and on-demand business ideas. He believes in spreading tech trends. He is an avid reader and loves thinking out of the box to promote new technologies.