05/24/2022 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/24/2022 07:07
Managing an organization's cybersecurity has traditionally depended on the skills and knowledge of select smart people utilizing great technology tools to detect and respond to potential threats as they are identified. As threats increase in both volume and sophistication, however, SecOps professionals have come to realize that their personal smarts, hard work, and existing tools may not be enough to keep their heads above water. Working smarter, not harder, and utilizing tools that expand the efficiency of resources is paramount to staying ahead of the threat.
Secureworks® is well-aware of the strain that SecOps teams are under. That's why we're so focused on helping SecOps teams do as much as they can with what they have-and, wherever possible, helping them figure out ways to get more for their security investment.
To better understand how Secureworks believes you can achieve these twin goals of better resourcing and improved operational efficiency, Professor Sally Eaves recently had a conversation with Lisa Washburn, Senior Director of Product Management at Secureworks. We invite you to listen to the podcast interview featured on the Tomorrow's Tech Today website, which covers the spectrum of challenges organizations are facing in today's threat landscape.
Pressed for time? Here's a brief overview of the broader discussion:
Above and beyond the mounting intensity of the attacks we face, Washburn cited five factors that push cybersecurity teams to focus more on their resource gaps, especially when it comes to SecOps solutions.
During the interview, Washburn gave a brief overview of the various measures teams can take to optimize their SecOps solutions' performance. These include foundational preventive measures such as diligent patching, deployment of antivirus and intrusion detection, tapping into the best available source of threat intelligence, and ensuring that cyber threats are included as part of any business continuity planning and testing that the organization conducts. She also highlighted some steps SecOps teams can take so they don't carry the entire burden of their organization's cybersecurity themselves. Those steps include:
This last point relates to what may have been Washburn's most important high-level message during the interview: Cybersecurity needs to be re-positioned from an unfortunately necessary cost center to a strategic investment in brand trust. Brand recognition and trust is an increasingly powerful competitive differentiator in a marketplace that doesn't universally inspire buyers' confidence.
"Security spend can be a business enabler," Washburn said. "The ability to demonstrate security due diligence is something that can actually differentiate a company in the eyes of its prospective customers, partners, and investors."
Any SecOps team looking to optimize its resource-efficiency can always turn to Secureworks for a bit of outside help by leveraging our cloud-native cybersecurity platform Taegis™ for more holistic threat prevention, detection, and response. To read how organizations have driven measurable security outcomes to the points in Washburn's podcast, you can download Forrester's Total Economic Impact study, which identifies key value points most organizations experience when investing in XDR.