From small- and medium-sized organizations to large enterprises, every business is under continuous threat of security risk in today’s digital world.

With the growing digital footprint and cloud adoption, organizations continue to experience sophisticated cyberthreats that hold the potential to disrupt business continuity.

A vast majority of these threats can go undetected, or they can be detected too late for an organization to avoid the exposure and the associated risks.

Thus, a cybersecurity strategy merely focused on preventing cyberattacks is inadequate. To secure critical assets and perhaps even the business itself, the organizations must shift their focus to detection and response.

The cybersecurity strategy must be matured enough to help organizations operate securely, remain vigilant in the face of cyber threats and show resiliency when attacked.

But budget constraints and the IT team’s inability to keep up with the known and emerging threats can impede the organization’s cybersecurity maturity.

In fact, according to a 2020 cybersecurity survey, only 57% of IT operations and security decision-makers identified their organization’s cybersecurity functions as mature.

At this juncture, we bring you five critical steps to improve your organization’s cybersecurity maturity and become more secure, vigilant and resilient.

The Five Steps to Improve Cybersecurity Maturity

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  1. Prioritizing Endpoint Protection

Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to attack the organization’s endpoints, making endpoint protection a must-have cybersecurity goal in the present data-driven world.

According to IDC’s recent survey, almost 30% of global organizations consider endpoint protection a significant component in cybersecurity strategy, while 60% of IT leaders consider it a high priority.

However, only 57% of the organizations say they are most mature in endpoint security, while over 40% are not.

Follow these steps to improve endpoint protection:

    • Analyze risk profiles of various endpoints.
    • Prioritize critical (Read more...)