How to Implement a Cybersecurity Plan with Managed IT Services

With cybersecurity on the rise in today’s digital world, safeguarding intellectual property is more crucial than ever for business planning and strategies regardless of business size. With the new levels of complexity and the number of threats increasing, having the right approach to understanding the actions needed for information security is vital to implement a cybersecurity plan.

A recommendation is to start by reviewing options to have a strategic approach to understanding cybersecurity and how it can impact your business. This strategic planning should include an executive overview of your current network, assessment of your network’s strengths and vulnerabilities, and implementing a step-by-step cybersecurity plan of action to review and secure the existing systems to prevent any future security breaches.

When preparing to implement an effective cybersecurity plan for your business, document the key focal points:

• Network Assessment:Document current network hardware, software and security applications as well as accessibility rights of the entire organization. Current and required solutions, policies and procedures also need to be identified.
• Review of Current Resolutions: With recent attacks, companies are starting to shift their cybersecurity strategies to focusing on implementing detection techniques to be notified when a security breach occurs. Security planning and procedures takes time to implement 100%, so determining the most immediate vulnerabilities in the event of a threat is crucial and should be addressed first in the network assessment.
• Implementation Process: Having a network assessment is the outline of the how to structure your preparedness for security threats within your organization.

Your best sources of guidance and implementation of your security policy and procedures is to work with a Managed Service Provider. Many MSPs are equipped with the network tools to provide a customized security and network assessment, and offer a personalized consultation to effectively implement the cybersecurity plan to address the entire process.

TaylorWorks, Inc. offers IT consulting services to provide network and service recommendations. With TaylorWorks, Inc. Managed IT Services plans, we provide businesses with proactive and on-demand support for monitoring, security and maintenance services. Contact TaylorWorks today at 407-478-6600 for a FREE system analysis.