How difficult is it to protect myself?
The difficulty to protect yourself is tied to a number of factors: how much data assets do you have that need to be protected, how many employees, how many locations, how many Internet connections, etc. The more complex your environment, the higher-profile your organization is, and the types of data you store, all have an impact on what it will take to adequately protect yourself. We talk about adopting a “Defense in Depth” approach which is where you don’t assume any single security solution is sufficient to protect you, but rather plan on overlapping solutions so that even if one fails, the next one is there to provide backup and prevent the bad guys from winning. An example of this might be a firewall that provides protection at the edge of your network, along with anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-ransomware running on your local user’s machines. Ideally the firewall keeps all the bad stuff out, but even if it misses something, the protection software on your endpoint is there to prevent the bad stuff from succeeding. Throw in backups of your key data sources offsite and offline, and you have an additional level of protection, even if both the firewall and the endpoint protection fail. The goal is to ensure that, one way or the other, you prevent where possible, detect where feasible, and have multiple ways to recover, just in case.
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How difficult is it to protect myself?
The difficulty to protect yourself is tied to a number of factors: how much data assets do you have that need to be protected, how many employees, how many locations, how many Internet connections, etc. The more complex your environment, the higher-profile your organization is, and the types of data you store, all have an impact on what it will take to adequately protect yourself. We talk about adopting a “Defense in Depth” approach which is where you don’t assume any single security solution is sufficient to protect you, but rather plan on overlapping solutions so that even if one fails, the next one is there to provide backup and prevent the bad guys from winning. An example of this might be a firewall that provides protection at the edge of your network, along with anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-ransomware running on your local user’s machines. Ideally the firewall keeps all the bad stuff out, but even if it misses something, the protection software on your endpoint is there to prevent the bad stuff from succeeding. Throw in backups of your key data sources offsite and offline, and you have an additional level of protection, even if both the firewall and the endpoint protection fail. The goal is to ensure that, one way or the other, you prevent where possible, detect where feasible, and have multiple ways to recover, just in case.
