Cyber Security Implementation
At Envisage, we take a personalised, meticulously planned approach to implementing your cyber security strategy. We see ourselves as a key partner to each of our clients and their teams, using technology to help them grow and become more successful. Security is increasingly crucial to success, as digital threats grow and evolve globally.
Our implementation services help you get a best-practice cyber security plan in place for the protection of your data, your business, and your customers.
Our Approach to Cyber Security Implementation
Envisage has experience in implementing each element of the protection layer for your business; this allows us to have documented processes that ensure we are setting everything up correctly despite the short time frames we are working to. Cyber Security is a critical risk area, and this means we have to ensure that we double-check every step.
Here’s why we choose a staged approach:
- Avoids and minimises disruptions: Our goal is to keep your business running smoothly and safely – even while you're onboarding new technology or systems. Implementing a comprehensive security plan can involve transitioning important operating systems and tools, and doing this in a staged, systematic way allows your business to keep running as usual, or with as little downtime as possible.
- Effectively prioritises: A staged approach allows us to cover off the most critical parts of your security plan first, rather than having to wait for the right time when all work can be done at once.
- Promotes whole-team learning: Protecting sensitive data can involve new tools and strategies, which will need to be passed onto your team. Taking things one at a time helps your team adjust to a new way of operating, and ensures that they're not being asked to absorb too many new skills or tasks at once.
- Feedback and evaluation: A staged approach allows you to consider exactly how a new tool is serving you, and to make adjustments as needed. You'll have a better view of how a tool matches your security objectives and your business objectives.
Whether you’re scaling your business or tightening up after rapid growth, a cyber security Brisbane audit helps you build a cyber-resilient foundation and stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Understanding the stages of implementation
- Thorough risk assessments and security audits: In this stage, we get to know your information assets and help you identify vulnerabilities in your existing systems. We offer security audits that help you get a clear view of your potential risks and major security challenges from the start. Learn more about our audits here.
- Protecting Core Operations and Systems: Once we’ve completed our risk assessment, we prioritise those risks, ensuring the most crucial tasks are covered off first, and that immediate threats to data integrity are managed.
- Advanced Protection and Threat Detection: Once baseline security practices and techniques are in place, we can start to build more permanent, comprehensive security plans that help your team manage cyber risks long-term.
- Optimisation and Continuous Improvement: The cyber security landscape is constantly changing, and a crucial part of staying safe is to conduct regular audits, safeguard against emerging threats, and continue to build protective measures that grow with your business. From refining incident response plans through to running regular penetration testing, our cyber security management services are here to ensure your security efforts are at their best.
Want to understand how this might look for your business?
What elements does my business need to stay safe against evolving cyber threats and data breaches?
Effective management of cyber threats involves more than just purchasing the right software subscription: it’s about combining and optimising your approach so that it helps you stay ahead of potential threats into the future.
Anti-Virus
For the devices your team use, Envisage uses Trend Micro Anti-virus. This allows us to centrally manage updates and alerts.
For the Hosting environment we manage, Envisage uses the best there is in the CrowdStrike platform.
Network Security
Envisage uses UniFi and Meraki equipment to give us the maximum amount of control over your network security, and more importantly, the ability to quickly evaluate issues when they occur.
Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-factor means needing 2 of 3 things to grant you access:
- Something you know.
- Something you have.
- Something you are.
Envisage works with Duo and Microsoft authentication tools to ensure that you aren’t reliant on just a password to secure access to your system.
Policy
IT teams tend to talk about policy when they mean settings in your systems; organisations tend to mean documents that form part of their way of working. Envisage can take care of both.
Hardening the environment
- Envisage have a baseline of settings that manage access of people and egress of data from environments we manage.
- Above this baseline, we work with you to understand how strictly you want to control your information and access, knowing that there is a trade-off between creating barriers to working in particularly flexible ways and having a secure environment.
Documenting your policy
- Envisage can work with you to ensure that the policies you have that govern the use of technology in your organisation are in line with your Cyber Security Goals. We can provide templates and communications that help you in designing and implementing the framework for your team.
FAQs
The answer to this varies greatly depending on your organisation’s current status and size, but we are always mindful of your timelines when helping you set up your security services. Our staged approach allows us to address the most crucial parts first, so that you can avoid messy interruptions and build your security strategy at a pace that works for your business.
It’s hard to ensure compliance if your staff don’t have the time to learn! We offer training for your internal team, so that they can understand and act on security policies as needed. With this training, your staff will know how they can be mitigating risks as part of their business-as-usual, and can identify vulnerabilities in the systems that they use every day.
We all know that lack of organisational buy-in is often a stumbling block when it comes to any new technology. We mitigate that risk with a clear, actionable incident-response strategy for you and your staff, as well as additional training where needed. On top of this, our staged approach to cyber security implementation helps your team gradually adjust to new strategies and tools.
The cyber risks businesses need to be most aware of include:
- Business email compromise (BEC): This is a targeted cyber attack, whereby a scammer impersonates a colleague, executive, or even a trusted vendor to get employees to share crucial, sensitive data. They often use psychological techniques more than just digital ones: they play on employee trust as well as their lack of awareness.
- Phishing scams: These kinds of cyber threats digitally impersonate an organisation or individual to compromise passwords and identity. Beware of suspicious links, fake login portals, and doctored invoices.
- Malware and ransomware: These two types of cyber risks are software built to take information, surveil, or damage systems. Ransomware – a kind of malware – can block access to important files or accounts, and demand a “ransom” be paid to release them.
- Supply chain attacks: Sometimes hackers target the third-party systems and software that you trust to gain access to your information. For instance, a malicious actor may infiltrate the delivery tracking tool your company uses, and gain access to your customers’ data as a result.
We conduct cyber risk assessments and are more than happy to implement the changes from these: learn more about the services here. If you’re already aware of an existing threat, or have been victim to a cyber threat already, we’re able to help you address those existing pain points, too.
Definitely not! Implementing MFA and some anti-virus protection can only get you so far. Preventative measures only last until a malicious actor finds their way around them. An ongoing risk management strategy and constant cyber hygiene are needed to ensure you’re protecting your data in a way that’s compliant with data-management regulations and your customers’ expectations. New security measures need to be implemented; any security incidents should make you review your incident response plan, and your data privacy policy will always need to transform based on consumer awareness and demands.
We make switching Easy!
Changing IT companies or systems can be a hassle. We’ll support you through the process, liaising with your existing IT partner and helping you source everything we need to hit the ground running.
