‘Tis the season for evolving cyberthreats, and here are some ways you can start implementing a Never-Trust, Always-Verify Security Strategy. It is not hard to start saving yourself time and worry. With a well-defined plan you can understand your goal. Is it to reduce breach risk? Or is it to enable secure remote work?
Some things to think about are rolling out mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) and stronger password policies. The practice of verifying every user and device drastically reduces risk.
Give employees access to what they need to do their jobs and nothing more. Not everyone needs access to everything. Good practice is to review permissions as well. Two actions that will reduce damage if the account is compromised.
Think about how to separate your network into smaller zones. Separating general and sensitive data with restricted access and protection when moving from one to the other.
Monitoring is key to detecting when strange behavior starts, so have ethical monitoring tools in place to help track normal employee behavior to sense when it is acting suspicious.
If you can start slowly and adopt these strategies, it will be well received and less confusing to your team. Defining your step-by-step plan will give you peace and be very cost-effective. Contact us for more tips on zero trust strategy.
