The recent Covid-19 pandemic has forced organisations to adopt a new way of working by implementing digital transformation in their systems and remote work culture for their employees. However, these sudden changes brought benefits for an organisation's business growth and opened doors for frequent cyberattacks by breaching data from different sources like applications, local network connections, and so on in 2021. Organisations had impacted their business by huge data loss and reliability.

The increase in frequency and complexity of the cyberattacks are due to the factors like larger workforce using their devices remotely, the number of outdated technologies and projects, and insufficient cybersecurity measures and support by the organisations IT teams. Therefore, this year 2022 is the next phase for organisations to secure their networks from cyberattacks, which will help them increase reliability, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.

Below are a few best practices and ways that our in-house experts suggest that can help organisations to prevent from cyberattacks in 2022. 

1. Educating your workforce

Educating employees is a preferred and straightforward step in protecting an organization's network from cyberattacks. This practice ensures that every member in your organisation knows how to protect data from breaches and retain customer loyalty.

An employee should use the organisation's official device only for authenticated work, avoid personal work within the same device, and limit the use of personal devices for work purposes. Employees should also practice connecting networks only from authenticated sources and avoid downloading from unauthorised sites. Users also have to remove the third-party applications which the organisation's internal IT department does not approved, this help organisations from  preventing cyberattacks from any unwanted applications and programs running in the background on the official device.  

2. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) process

The passwords and access control plays a crucial role in protecting organizations from data breached and cyberattacks. It is also important to change all passwords as per scheduled time line with more complexity, as they are high vulnerability for cyberattacks.

It is necessary for every user to authenticate their credentials through secure and secondary applications each time the user is logged in. Additionally, organizations should consider high time implementing password management policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) within the system to secure the devices from cyberattacks.  

3. Adopting software’s for better monitoring

As there are multiple networking devices and applications in the organisations, it is challenging for the organisations to monitor and maintain all the systems. This opens a potential thread for cyberattacks and data breaches in the organisations' networks.

Organisations should consider adopting and implementing network management tools into their IT network, which can help them better monitor and alert when there is an attack or unauthorised login.

Check out Sun Technologies' Network Monitoring tool (SNMT), a lightweight solution with AI capabilities that can monitor your network 24/7, quickly identify the threads in the organisation's network, prevent problems, and help optimise your IT infrastructure.

4. Choosing the technology services provider

It is challenging for organisations to find the perfect technology provider who can offer solutions related to IT infrastructure and cyber security with transparency in this digital world. Therefore, organisational leaders need to understand the IT services vendor privacy protection policies by asking the relevant questions and checking their previous customer feedback associated with the work they have delivered.

Organisations should consider choosing an IT vendor as a main pillar of strategy in securing their network by operating with transparency and clear communications to safeguard against the vulnerabilities from both sides.

Read our case study to learn how Sun Technologies have offered End-to-end IT infrastructure services for a popular US retail industry.

5. Stay updated with technologies and hardware

A single outdated application or an API gateway may open doors for cyberattacks. Therefore, an organisation's IT teams should take the necessary steps to keep their applications, servers, and API gateways up to date.

Read the blog on Log4j vulnerability in 2021, risks associated with Java-based applications, and suggested actions to be taken by your organisations to prevent cyberattacks by our cybersecurity experts.

Conclusion

As hackers are becoming smart with the changing security trends, it is impossible to protect the organisation from cyberattacks by adopting modern security solutions and updated hardware. An organisation should also be partnered with a reliable IT vendor specializing in offering support and maintenance in modern cybersecurity solutions for similar industry verticals.

Sun Technologies is an established IT firm serving its client for the past 20+ years with trending technologies and services, including infrastructure maintenance and support associated with digitisation. Our in-house experts have worked with similar industry verticals like you by delivering customised cybersecurity solutions for client's digital network.