
The importance of a proactive approach
By thinking of data breaches as inevitable, providers should immediately see the need to adopt a layered approach to security — one that minimizes the number of breaches as well as the damage that they can cause. What are you doing at this very moment to limit your attack surface? If cybercriminals have already breached your systems (and they very well may have), what processes do you have in place that can contain the threat?A modern approach to cybersecurity necessitates proactive measures, such as:- Vulnerability scanning, to identify security gaps for remediation
- Patch management, to quickly deploy available security fixes across systems and networks
- Email and URL filtering, to block malicious resources before users have the chance to interact with them
- The incorporation of smart protection plans that can be automatically adjusted based on active threat intelligence updates