You’ve recovered from a cyberattack—now what?

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Cybersecurity planning doesn’t stop after a business recovers from an attack. Learn what steps SMBs can take to be prepare for when the next threat comes knocking. HPE. Your silent partner.

Whew, that was rough! But you did it. Congratulations for surviving one of the most dreaded, increasingly ubiquitous, and constantly mutating threats to modern business. Now that your data and operating capability are back under your control and business continues, your job has only just begun.

Cybersecurity is a constant vigil of active learning, teaching, and awareness. Although you’ve learned a lot through this ordeal, here are a few tips and resources to help make protecting your company and customers a bit easier.

• Harden your infrastructure – update firmware, software, OS, networking controls—especially important with mobility, IoT, and work from home increasing security challenges.
• Designate and empower a cybersecurity leader to create and oversee your plans.
• List what worked well with the recovery process and note ways to improve. Was your time to recover as expected, or do you need to get better? Document your expectations.
• Educate yourself and your company – not just once or twice, but regularly. Learn, teach and learn some more—always.
• Consider implementing a zero-trust model.

Strike while the iron is hot

This may seem a bit mercenary, but it’s a prudent point to make. While the reality and implications and costs of a security breach are now as painfully clear as they ever will be for your company, this could be your best opportunity to get those security strengthening steps to the top of your planning—and budget.

Those steps could be replacing aging servers and operating systems, updating software (not only the business-critical apps, but also other apps which are potential attack vectors), networking and wireless gear, storage backup/recovery solutions, or even adding that long-wished-for and needed IT headcount to keep up with demands on your time and energy.

HPE can help with cybersecurity training

When it comes to cybersecurity experience, you're in good hands—HPE cybersecurity operations protect a $35 billion business with over 64,000 employees. We offer comprehensive worldwide training and certification prep for a diverse, global customer base (more than 90 countries). You'll get access to: 

• HPE cybersecurity experts who keep you apprised of the latest industry developments
• Latest HPE innovations, including cybersecurity trends and other HPE technologies
• HPE Virtual Labs (HPE vLabs) for hands-on practice
• Flexible course formats, including live virtual instructor-led training (VILT) courses; traditional classroom training (ILT); self-paced eLearning; and anytime, anywhere learning with HPE Digital Learner
• Convenient purchase options, including HPE Training Credits

Free cybersecurity resources from HPE

• Blog: 8 tips to help you jumpstart your cybersecurity program
• Infographic: 8 tips to improve cybersecurity risk management
• Blog: Best practice guidance on how to increase workplace security awareness
• Infographic: Benefits of adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• Video: Leveraging HPE StoreEver LTO Tape to combat ransomware
• Learn about Aruba: Edge-To-Cloud Security for the Intelligent Edge
• Learn about Zerto: Ransomware Protection and Disaster Recovery with Zerto
• Learn about HPE Cloud Volumes Backup and how Audio Acoustics leveraged a secure, cost-effective, cloud-based strategy

Now is not the time to take more than a deep breath as you continue planning to keep your business secure and resilient should your security be breached again. Hopefully our discussion today helped you further along the path to post recovery.

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Mark Simpkins
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