Rising cybercrime, digital disruption, increased compliance demands, and skill shortages are changing the landscape in cyber security. Businesses look for a competitive edge through digital transformation, but the deciding factor that forces them to seek help from external partners (MSSPs), are the increasing data breaches.

MSSPs need to supersede the “trust” barrier and they have to fight their way through and prove that the are more efficient, more flexible, they have a lot of quality and expertise, they can provide a large scope of security product portfolio, but most important, that they are cost effective.

Defence-In-Depth, or Layered Cybersecurity Defence Network, is a strategy using multiple security measures to protect the integrity of information, where if one line of defence is compromised, additional layers of defence are in place to ensure that threats do not slip through the cracks. This method addresses the security vulnerabilities that inevitably exist in technology, personnel, and operations within an organization.

In the pervasive threat environment that exists today, organizations need to assume this perimeter can be breached and hence protect key assets against internal as well as external threats. Assuming breach requires a shift in mindset from prevention alone to containment after breach. Therefor organizations need to plan for an imminent security compromise. They need to harden their internal network, systems and applications is such a way that hackers will really struggle to move laterally and remain unnoticed for a long period of time. Penetration testing is a key exercise that organizations need to take to simulate such attacks, but security awareness training is also as important, since people are the weakest link in the chain and they must be trained … continuously.