The breach disgraced Equifax’s reputation damaged its stock and decimated its executive ranks.
No one needs to be the next Equifax and it’s a safe bet that at this very time big and small businesses across the roots are scrambling to support their cyber fortifications.
It’s not an easy feat. But Steve Martino, chief information security officer at Cisco, has caught some clever techniques through years of battling the bad guys.
Cisco representatives are constantly kept on their toes as Martino probes them for soft spots and drills a protective mindset into them.
Martino sat down with News to share unusual of his key tactics for formulating an organization that won’t become the victim of the next big cyber attack.
Every freshman and office worker knows how to get out of the office fast if there’s an emergency. The same should be true for reacting to cyber threats.
Martino suggests that management teams set up a cybersecurity playbook with described steps that the team needs to take should their worst horrors come to fruition.
Once the playbook is organized, and roles are doled out to the staff, organizations should run drills for security breaches the way that institutions run drills for fires: The more company practices, the better-prepared staffers are when something ends to go wrong.
Expect that attackers will get within some of the time and actively seek out the invaders.
“You have to acknowledge that in today’s interconnected world, no focus how much you deploy, mistakes will happen,” Martino says. From workers that click on phishing emails, to programmers that build buggy software, the human mistake is often at the heart of security.
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