Cyber Security

Cyber awareness training gives employees the tools and knowledge to identify, avoid, report and manage cybersecurity threats and strengthen your company’s ability to defend itself against a cyber attack. In today’s world, cyber security threats pose a real danger to companies, and there is no better way to combat it than with cyber awareness training. Cyber awareness training is deliverable and customisable to different roles within your business, as each position will deal with different networks and systems.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a cybersecurity service that provides businesses with a practical and modern way to manage and detect security threats. MDR combines security-combing technologies with expert human knowledge to perform threat checks, ongoing monitoring and reporting and stops an attack before it can damage a business’s operations or infrastructure.

Penetration testing is a series of security tests that mimic how hackers attack a company’s systems, applications or network to locate security vulnerabilities and flaws. Penetration testing highlights the cyber threats your business may face and offer recommendations for strengthening your business’s cyber security.

It is important that security risk assessments are not one-time events. Security breaches are increasingly becoming more intelligent, meaning that the chances of recognising one are becoming more challenging. Security risk assessments identify vulnerabilities in your IT infrastructure and employee operations and help you understand the financial threat they pose to your business.

A Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitors an organisation’s entire IT infrastructure to detect real-time cybersecurity events and address them as quickly and effectively as possible. The benefit of a SOC is that it unifies and coordinates an organisation’s practices, security tools, and response to security threats or incidents. This usually results in improved security policies and preventative measures, faster threat detection and more effective response to security threats.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) describes each of these schemes in more detail (available here), but a summary taken directly from their website is below:

Cyber Essentials

“Our self-assessment option gives you protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to basic attacks can mark you out as target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others.

Certification gives you peace of mind that your defences will protect against the vast majority of common cyber attacks simply because these attacks are looking for targets which do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place.

Cyber Essentials shows you how to address those basics and prevent the most common attacks.”

Cyber Essentials Plus

“Cyber Essentials Plus still has the Cyber Essentials trademark simplicity of approach, and the protections you need to put in place are the same, but for Cyber Essentials Plus a hands-on technical verification is carried out.

Alternatively you can familiarise yourself with cyber security terminology, gaining enough knowledge to begin securing your IT.”

Fusion Business Services can help your organisation earn these prestigious and valuable certifications, which will not only help your business in the fight against cyber threats but also reassure your supply chain that you take cybersecurity seriously and have proactive steps in place.