Buyer’s Guide for Securing Internal Environment with a Small Cybersecurity Team

Ensuring the cybersecurity of your internal environment when you
have a small security team is challenging. If you want to maintain
the highest security level with a small team, your strategy has to
be ‘do more with less,’ and with the right technology, you can
leverage your team and protect your internal environment from
breaches.

The “buyer’s guide for securing the internal
environment with a small cybersecurity team^[1],” includes a checklist
of the most important things to consider when creating or
re-evaluating the cybersecurity of your internal environment to
ensure your team has it all covered.

The buyer’s guide is designed to help you choose the solution
that will ensure you get complete visibility, accurately detect and
mitigate threats, and make the most of your existing resources and
skills. There are three key aspects that stand out when looking for
the best way to protect your internal environment with a small
team—visibility, automation, and ease of use.

If you can’t see it, you can’t keep it secure

With the attack surface continually growing and your endpoints
and employees being spread across multiple locations,
visibility of your entire internal environment is
critical for its protection. How do you ensure visibility?

1. Asset discovery – make sure you know about all your
endpoints so that you can keep them monitored and updated.

2. Advanced endpoint security – ‘understand’ the
endpoint’s behavior in order to detect anomalies and stealthy
attacks.

3. Natively integrated advanced technologies including NGAV,
EDR, NTA/NDR, UEBA, and Deception Technology, to ensure coverage
and timely detection.

Your success lies with automation

A small team can only get as much done. Automation can free up a
lot of your team’s time and resources, and it will probably help
with a lot of your regulatory requirements.

Automation touches every aspect of the cybersecurity solution –
from the asset discovery to the accurate detection, from
investigation workflows to prioritization of risk, from response
planning to execute remediation.

A solution that provides automated investigation workflows of
all detected threats will substantially cut the time from alert to
respond and ensure all threats are investigated and
prioritized.

Keep it simple, or no one will use it

Don’t mistake this title with a solution being user-friendly.
Sure, it’s part of it, but far from what the term actually
encompasses.

• Deployment – there are several factors to consider before
  deploying a solution. Look for a fast-to-deploy solution, doesn’t
  interfere with operations and requires minimal effort and resources
  from your organization.
• Consolidation – a single solution that replaces or combines
  multiple security tools in a unified platform is a huge advantage
  for operations and management. In addition, it will usually reduce
  costs and improve time-to-remediation.
• Integration – for a solution to be effective and used, it has
  to integrate with other existing solutions easily. This will also
  enhance your resilience and leverage the ROI of your cybersecurity
  environment.

A small security team still has to address major cybersecurity
challenges, just like a big team does. Small teams have to be more
creative, more efficient, and more adaptive as they are constantly
required to do more with less.

This buyer’s guide will help you choose the cybersecurity
solution that will keep your internal environment secure, leverage
your team, and optimize their resources. Download it here^[2].