From detecting and responding to threats with advanced AI capabilities to ensuring compliance and data protection, today’s front-running businesses are investing in a holistic approach. Explore the top challenges — and how leaders are solving them.
Protection: Solid foundations
Data protection is a whole new ballgame in a constantly shifting threat landscape. Today’s organizations are looking for new ways to maintain regulatory compliance, safeguard sensitive information and prevent costly breaches.
Top challenges:
- Data proliferation
- Encryption for data in transit and at rest
- Insider threats
- Regulatory compliance complexity
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Data classification to inform protection strategies
- Modern encryption tools and strategies
- Intentional identity and access management and access controls
- Next-gen data loss prevention tools
- Endpoint security across the entire ecosystem
Detection: Eyes on everything
Early — and accurate — detection of threats is crucial for organizations to mitigate risks, minimize potential damage and maintain operational continuity.
Top challenges
- Alert fatigue
- Resource constraints
- Volume and complexity of data
- Adapting to rapid change across threat landscape
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Evaluating security policies and requirements considering business needs/industry best practices
- Uncovering strengths, gaps and opportunities in existing security infrastructure
- Investigating threats with AI
- Minimizing false positives
- Detecting previously uncovered threats
- Designing the ideal future SOC, with next-gen approaches and tool sets
- Managed security to offload teams and provide 24/7, full-scale coverage
Response: Taking action
When the worst happens, a robust incident response plan helps minimize downtime, reduce financial loss and ease panic across the business.
Top challenges:
- Slow response times
- Lack of planning/a playbook
- Coordination and communication
- Containing complex incidents
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Incident response planning using frameworks such as NIST
- Tabletop exercises (on-site and remote simulations to prepare key personnel)
- Focused threat hunting, disabling any existing compromises in the IT ecosystem
- Access to rapid support to identify, contain and remediate threats
- Support for internal teams with system maintenance and ongoing protection
- Lessons learned exercises to identify opportunities for improvement moving forward
Recovery: Restoring and resuming business
Having a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) plan ensures quick recovery from disruptions, minimized downtime and business continuity in the face of unforeseen events.
Top challenges
- Out-of-date backups
- System remediation
- Incident analysis
- Business continuity
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Thorough development of DR strategy
- Confirming DR strategies can execute before disaster
- Centralized replication, failover and failback management
- Data resilience — orchestrating replication without intercepting application data
- Ongoing DR drills
Insight: A security partner you can count on
A comprehensive approach is the future of stronger cybersecurity — no matter the industry. Organizations that work with Insight can expect:
- Comprehensive ransomware and cyberthreat prevention and protection solutions and strategies
- Security for hybrid and multicloud environments that use automation, AI and machine learning
- Modern data protection that spans cloud, edge and on-premises — encompassing data classification, governance, compliance and disaster recovery
- Microsoft Azure and Copilot Security tools for monitoring IT environments, protecting data and safeguarding endpoints and workloads, — propelled by long-running partnerships with the most trusted brands
