Cyber Security as Competitive Advantage
managed security service providers or managed detection and response providers. A service provider can monitor networks for threats, and detect risks and issues. They can then respond with remediation in a more timely manner than you may be able to do internally. To assess the optimal partnership with a service provider, it is important to recognize the expertise you have in-house versus those areas where you may fall short. For example, if you don’t have a Chief Security Officer or Security Operations Center, you can augment with the services of a managed service provider to ensure you are staying on the cutting edge of the threat landscape.
- Provide secure network access
With virtual network functions on a single device, advanced security services, like next generation firewalls, or Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewalls, can be provisioned, configured and supported remotely without requiring physical changes in the telecom closet. This allows businesses to be a lot more agile and brings advanced security functions and services closer to the edge of a distributed network. This enables businesses to use their local internet connection in those locations. Not only will this support encrypted tunnels to corporate resources, but it also supports secure access directly to the internet–reducing overhead on data center capacity and optimizing their distributed investment.
- Segregate business connectivity from residential.
Perhaps the best long-term solution to cybersecurity in a remote working environment is segregating your business connectivity from the residential connectivity, as much as possible. This can be done with separate connections as well as extending security into the home. But knowing that employees could be working from anywhere at any time, that’s not always practical. For this reason, it’s important to have multiple layers of defense. If you can’t isolate your employees, you should ensure that remote access and endpoint protection are current and configured optimally on all devices in a way that triggers frequent automated updates. This will allow it to just happen in the background, without impacting productivity for the employee or customer.
Shena Seneca Tharnish is VP, Cybersecurity, Products at Comcast Business.
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