Is Your Security Posture Negligent? Not with Multilayered Cybersecurity

Within weeks after the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the company was already facing two class-action lawsuits. In the filing, gas station owners alleged that Colonial Pipeline “intentionally, willfully, recklessly, or negligently” failed to secure their critical infrastructure from cyberthreats adequately. The cost of defending these lawsuits can be added to the amount of revenue lost during the 5-day shutdown, the $4.4M ransom Colonial paid to hackers, and the estimated tens of millions of dollars it will take to restore their systems.

Independent audits commissioned by Colonial in 2018 acknowledged their inadequate cybersecurity protections before the cyber attack, including the avenue the hackers utilized to breach their systems. This detail implies that Colonial could have avoided the attack if they had implemented the recommended changes.

When was your company’s last vulnerability assessment? Have you made the recommended improvements? Do you know how to address your security vulnerabilities?

Are you putting your business at risk because of your deficient posture?

What is at stake from a ransomware attack?

• Financial loss from shutdowns and restoration efforts
• Reputational damage
• Fines and penalties from regulators
• Permanent loss of proprietary data
• Exposure of confidential and proprietary data
• Costly lawsuits from clients, employees, and others impacted by data breaches or loss of productivity from stoppages
• The complete failure and dissolution of your company

Could you defend your current strategy to investors and regulators if a breach occurred?

Escalating Threats

The potential risks from a deficient or merely adequate cybersecurity posture are just too significant. The escalating cyber threat landscape requires a rigorous, dynamic, and proactive security strategy. The only way to truly protect your firm from cyber threats is with a robust cybersecurity position. The most secure approach is utilizing multilayered protection, often referred to as defense-in-depth.

What Does Multilayered Security Strategy Encompass?

Defense-in-depth is a system of overlapping security layers that range from easy-to-implement controls to complex security tools. These layers are designed to create an interlocking barrier.

Coretelligent employs next-generation firewalls, endpoint detection and response, patch management and security updates, access management policies, advanced spam filtering, and more to create these security layers.

Want to learn more about how to take your cybersecurity posture from reactive to proactive by implementing multilayered cybersecurity? Read more and view our defense-in-depth graphic on multilayered cybersecurity here.