RESPOND—a new way to provide cyber protection

/RESPOND—a new way to provide cyber protection
RESPOND—a new way to provide cyber protection 2024-10-11T15:29:02-05:00

Cyber security is very topical, as more and more organizations get attacked and impacted by an ever-growing and ever-improving set of bad actors.

Effective protection against those actors is hard, because there can be many moving parts to protection that need to be maintained: firewalls, IPS/IDS, encryption, client EDR/EPP software, NAC, vulnerability audits and analysis, anti-phishing tools and processes…the list goes on and on. All of these tools are important, because good edge protection is necessary. And people managing these parts also need to have good cyber training.

And even all of these products and services, installed, configured and maintained well, still aren’t enough to provide complete protection. Reflect on all of the recent high-profile hacks of AT&T, United Healthcare, the Port of Seattle and SEA-TAC Airport, dozens of local governments, dozens of school systems, banks and credit unions, and dozens of hospitals. All of these organizations have the same staffs and tools in place that you have now.

Maybe it’s time to think a bit outside the protection box and add a second, complementary protection layer. Consider a RESPOND implementation. No, there’s no silver bullet that provides perfect cyber protection, but this does dramatically increase the level of that cyber protection at a reasonable cost, and with very little effort.

The following sections discuss RESPOND features and benefits in greater detail; click on any interesting-looking piece for a deeper dive into that part of RESPOND.

If you later become interested and want more information want to see a demonstration, or want to discuss a RESPOND implementation, send an email to bpatrick@mxncorp.com and he’ll get right back with you.

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