Cybersecurity in 2022: Best practices to keep your organization free from cyberattacks

Cybersecurity in 2022: Best practices to keep your organization free from cyberattacks _____________________________________________________________________________________

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has forced organizations to adopt a new way of working by implementing digital transformation in their systems and remote work culture for their employees. However, these sudden changes brought benefits for an organization's business growth and opened doors for frequent cyberattacks by breaching data from different sources like applications, local network connections, and so on in 2021. Organizations had impacted their business by huge data loss and reliability.

The increase in frequency and complexity of the cyberattacks are due to the factors like larger workforce using their devices remotely, the number of outdated technologies and projects, and insufficient cybersecurity measures and support by the organizations IT teams. Therefore, this year 2022 is the next phase for organizations to secure their networks from cyberattacks, which will help them increase reliability, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.

Below are a few best practices and ways that our in-house experts suggest that can help organizations to prevent from cyberattacks in 2022.

1. Educating your workforce Educating employees is a preferred and straightforward step in protecting an organization's network from cyberattacks. This practice ensures that every member in your organization knows how to protect data from breaches and retain customer loyalty.

An employee should use the organization's official device only for authenticated work, avoid personal work within the same device, and limit the use of personal devices for work purposes. Employees should also practice connecting networks only from authenticated sources and avoid downloading from unauthorized sites. Users also have to remove the third-party applications which the organization's internal IT department does not approved, this help organizations from preventing cyberattacks from any unwanted applications and programs running in the background on the official device.

2. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) process The passwords and access control plays a crucial role in protecting organizations from data breached and cyberattacks. It is also important to change all passwords as per scheduled time line with more complexity, as they are high vulnerability for cyberattacks.

It is necessary for every user to authenticate their credentials through secure and secondary applications each time the user is logged in. Additionally, organizations should consider high time implementing password management policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) within the system to secure the devices from cyberattacks.

3. Adopting software’s for better monitoring As there are multiple networking devices and applications in the organizations, it is challenging for the organizations to monitor and maintain all the systems. This opens a potential thread for cyberattacks and data breaches in the organizations' networks.

Organizations should consider adopting and implementing network management tools into their IT network, which can help them better monitor and alert when there is an attack or unauthorized login.

Check out Sun Technologies' Network Monitoring tool (SNMT), a lightweight solution with AI capabilities that can monitor your network 24/7, quickly identify the threads in the organization's network, prevent problems, and help optimize your IT infrastructure.

4. Choosing the technology services provider It is challenging for organizations to find the perfect technology provider who can offer solutions related to IT infrastructure and cyber security with transparency in this digital world. Therefore, organizational leaders need to understand the IT services vendor privacy protection policies by asking the relevant questions and checking their previous customer feedback associated with the work they have delivered.

Organizations should consider choosing an IT vendor as a main pillar of strategy in securing their network by operating with transparency and clear communications to safeguard against the vulnerabilities from both sides.

Read our case study to learn how Sun Technologies have offered End-to-end IT infrastructure services for a popular US retail industry.

5. Stay updated with technologies and hardware A single outdated application or an API gateway may open doors for cyberattacks. Therefore, an organization's IT teams should take the necessary steps to keep their applications, servers, and API gateways up to date.

Read the blog on Log4j vulnerability in 2021, risks associated with Java-based applications, and suggested actions to be taken by your organizations to prevent cyberattacks by our cybersecurity experts.

Conclusion As hackers are becoming smart with the changing security trends, it is impossible to protect the organization from cyberattacks by adopting modern security solutions and updated hardware. An organization should also be partnered with a reliable IT vendor specializing in offering support and maintenance in modern cybersecurity solutions for similar industry verticals.

Sun Technologies is an established IT firm serving its client for the past 20+ years with trending technologies and services, including infrastructure maintenance and support associated with digitization.

Our in-house experts have worked with similar industry verticals like you by delivering customized cybersecurity solutions for client's digital network.

Contact us to know more about how your cybersecurity solutions can help your organizations make your network more reliable and proof from cyberattacks.