How to prepare, mitigate, and recover from a cybersecurity event
The world has seen cyberattacks increase by 300% just in the last few years, but given recent news overseas, it has become a daily concern. No organization is immune to cyberattacks, no matter what their size, but preventative measures can and should be taken now to reduce your chances of being attacked or a swift recovery if you are attacked. This is especially important in the trucking and logistics industry where any amount of downtime can mean significant costs and delays across the supply chain.
Here are a few measures you should put in place now if you haven’t already:
1. Employee Education
95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. Educate your employees about phishing, secure passwords, remote work practices, social media, and suspicious emails.
2. Maintain Your Solutions
Attacks may exploit openings in your software that are known or old and have been resolved by recent patches. Keeping security patches and software updates current protects against a wide array of attacks. Automated updates of these patches and updates are recommended.
3. Maintain a Data Backup and Recovery Plan
Data backup is your only chance to recover from a ransomware attack without paying the ransom. There are multiple layers to backup and recovery. Picking the right solutions for your company is important, taking into account the time to restore after the attack. At a minimum utilize a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy. This strategy is a method for ensuring that your data is adequately duplicated and reliably recovered. In this strategy, three copies of your data are created on at least two different storage media and at least one copy is stored remotely.
Consider redundant solutions – Having a redundant system residing elsewhere as a fail over point may reduce downtime should you be attacked.
4. Cloud Services
If you haven’t moved from on-premises hardware to cloud-hosted hardware you may wish to consider this now.
5. Restoration
Develop and document a data restoration and disaster plan.
6. Legal Help
Depending on the size of your organization, consider hiring a cyber incident law firm. Cyber incident law firms have forensics experts on hand to investigate after a cyber incident and will help with your recovery plans. The first several hours after an attack are important so you don’t want to use this precious time to find someone but instead want to use that time to engage them.
Preventative measures are like building a castle. The more effort and money you place into your castle, the stronger it becomes and less likely you are to experience a catastrophic event. But not all companies need or can afford a castle of the same size. If you don’t know where to start and need assistance in building your castle for your trucking or logistics business, please contact GLCS, Inc. We have helped several companies with their IT needs, including cyber security and backup services, and can provide the right guidance based on the needs of your company.
For more guidance about how to prevent, mitigate, and recover from a cybersecurity event, check out the Grawe Group podcast featuring GLCS’ Nate Johnson as a guest speaker. Feel free to contact us for personalized assistance and gain peace of mind.
https://thegrawegroup.com/discussing-cybersecurity-how-prepared-is-your-company/