Achieving strong and robust cyber security requires clear-headed strategic thinking, which isn’t easy if your IT teams are time-poor and resource-stretched.
A strong cyber security strategy speaks volumes. Encompassing robust security processes and access controls means your business can minimise the risk of unauthorised access and data breaches to deliver improved protection for your digital assets. Furthermore, you’ll be able to preserve customer trust and the reputation of your business by staying on the front foot of cyber risk.
But even once you’re clear on your cyber security strategy, there’s the question of how to deliver it without further overwhelming your team or sending your costs spiralling.
Knowing where to begin when implementing a cyber security strategy can be daunting, especially if you’ve not considered this approach before. But we cannot underestimate the importance of having this in place. Working with a partner to establish and implement a cyber security strategy is the best way to make sure all bases are covered, providing you with a robust plan in place to protect your business and its assets.
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Justin Barker
Employee Experience Practice Lead at Nasstar
“Cyber security strategy is essential for all businesses. It should be a key part of your business activity, ensuring vital security components are a part of every tool and service you use. It’s not enough to simply ‘do security’, you need to ensure security measures are in place and underpinning everything you do. At Nasstar, we can help you develop a cyber security strategy that supports your wider business goals and keeps you protected.”
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A cyber security strategy is the first step in ensuring your security posture is up to scratch and adaptable for evolving cyber threats of the future. As part of the process, solutions will be identified to help you implement your strategy, which could include any number of cyber security services we offer at Nasstar.
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Our cyber security strategy services are designed to help you better understand and quantify your risks, access additional resources or skills to tackle specific security challenges and improve your ability to detect and respond to new threats wherever they occur.
Most importantly, we can unify your organisation around an agreed set of security priorities and determine the right approach for delivering them – whether in-house, fully-outsourced, or somewhere in-between. With Nasstar, you can feel confident in how you approach security and be reassured that every priority is taken care of.
We start by undertaking a cyber security strategic assessment to understand where your business currently sits on the security spectrum. Following this, we’ll work closely with you to establish the goals for your strategy and recommend solutions we think could improve your overall security posture. Our cloud security strategic services are ideal for businesses adopting cloud or migrating existing systems.
Our teams can help you confidently shape and validate your cyber security strategy, as well as advise you on cyber risk and how a defined strategy can underpin your business’ wider goals and growth plans.
Why Choose Nasstar?
At Nasstar we offer trusted, impartial advice born out of decades of experience helping organisations strengthen and maintain their defences. We provide access to our security specialists for strategic counsel at every stage of your journey.
What sets us apart from other cyber security strategy providers is our extensive industry expertise. We have worked with many businesses in different sectors, which means we understand the challenges faced by specific industries and how to mitigate them. We can help you navigate industry-specific compliance requirements and keep you on the front foot.
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We’ve worked with several businesses to create and implement a robust security strategy, protecting their digital assets and ensuring they are headed in a direction that can effectively navigate the complex and ever-changing cyber risk landscape.
FAQs
A cyber security strategy is a detailed plan that businesses can use to protect their systems and data from cyber threats. Often, cyber security strategies combine policies, tools, and best practices to support the preparation of events like data breaches, ransomware, and other threats.
Cyber security strategies are vital for businesses of any shape and size. They can help organisations to protect assets, comply with regulations, reduce their risk, and respond to breaches more efficiently.
A cybersecurity strategic assessment is used to assess your current cyber security strategy and look for weaknesses that could be improved with a more robust cyber security strategy. The process typically involves using tools to identify vulnerabilities in your security posture, before prioritising them in terms of risk and establishing solutions to mitigate them.
At Nasstar, we recommend regular updates to your cyber security strategy to keep pace with the ever-changing cyber threat landscape. Once per year is optimal, but you should also ensure you review and update your strategy following any significant changes in the business.
Any business in any sector can fall victim to a cyber attack, so it’s important that organisations in all sectors prioritise having a robust cyber security strategy in place. However, businesses in highly regulated industries like healthcare, financial services, and public sector are often high value targets for cyber criminals so it is even more vital that they have protocols in place.
Cyber security strategic assessments can help organisations comply with regulations by helping them identify vulnerabilities, evaluate their security posture, and make informed decisions about risk mitigation.
A well-defined and proactive cyber security strategy can help businesses to address emerging threats and technologies by ensuring the business’ security efforts are adaptable and prepared for any eventuality.
As part of your cyber security strategy, you should incorporate several elements that will support your organisation to address new threats. These include:
- Security awareness training for staff
- Implementing a Zero Trust model
- Regular vulnerability and threat assessments
- Continuous monitoring
- Incident response planning
- Regular security policy reviews
- Ongoing research and vigilance to stay ahead of the threat landscape
