How Middle Market Organizations Can Achieve Cyber Resilience
The pressure is on middle market firms to not only continuously block and tackle bad actors, patch vulnerable systems and understand the connection points across highly integrated technology stacks, but also stay on top of the potential impact of emerging threats and regulatory changes.
As a result, security and technology teams in the middle market must constantly evaluate their preparedness for evolving threats and provide quantifiable evidence of current controls effectiveness to insurers and the marketplace.
Midsize companies can build sustained cyber resilience by managing the full cyber life cycle through the four points of assess, mitigate, transfer and recover:
- Assess: Understand the organization’s security posture and its current level of cyber resilience. Use analytics to benchmark cyber security resilience against peers in the market and identify weak points to make better decisions on risk management and cyber insurance solutions.
- Mitigate: Be proactive to help minimize the impact of cyber threats, using tools that can help defend against active threats, while also planning for incident…
