The Facts About CMMC Compliance for Cybersecurity
April 3, 2024
Gray Analytics has served many customers across many industries. While no two industries or customers are exactly alike, they do share cybersecurity concerns that threaten all of us.
The small- to mid-sized companies that Gray Analytics most often works with – which are oftentimes challenged by limited cybersecurity budgets – tend to encounter their most significant challenges in three distinct areas.
We’re going to share these three areas with you. But, we emphasize there is no one-size-fits-all solution in cybersecurity.
This is why Gray Analytics has developed a proven approach to assessing your current state of cybersecurity preparedness, identifying an appropriate framework – including SOC, CSF, CMMC, NIST, and others – and creating a gap analysis along with actions that will move your organization to a more secure and resilient cybersecurity posture.
Top 3 Cybersecurity Concerns for Gray Analytics’ Customers
1. Identity Authentication
If your employees and contractors are following all the rules and recommendations for secure authentication, they are juggling dozens or even hundreds of passwords in their professional and private lives.
In fact, it’s likely that few to none of your employees and contractors are following all the rules.
That, in turn, increases the likelihood of passwords that are far too easy to crack because of repetitive use and easy-to-remember syntax. And, oftentimes, such passwords are posted for sale on Dark Web sites.
Passwords may be a relic, but they are still the standard, most widespread method for identity authentication.
It’s time for organizations to introduce and enforce multi-factor and/or biometric-based authentication for better security.
2. Access Management
Role-based access control is vital for protecting data from cybersecurity threats.
But implementing such control is not a one-time exercise. Roles and responsibilities change as personnel move within the organization, or leave, or when new talent comes onboard. This increases the risk of insider threats – and not all insider threats are due to theft.
In many cases data is compromised by unintended actions often related to training, improper access, or negligence.
Implementing Least Privileged Access throughout an organization is a required by many cybersecurity frameworks. It can be decisive in reducing insider threats and improving your cybersecurity posture.
3. Malware Protection & Remediation
Malware, ransomware, viruses, worms, trojans – they’re all seriously dangerous for any organization.
And the risk of experiencing a breach is rising. For example, consider the number of emails you receive in a day. Now multiply that by your number of colleagues.
It only takes a single click on a single link to put your business at risk.
The challenges of defending your business are only growing more complicated. Adversaries include lone wolf hackers – but may also include potentially much more sophisticated attacks funded by national governments.
Fortunately, there are proven ways to effectively keep threats at bay, like keeping your systems updated, limiting file sharing, and using anti-malware software. Strong access control and identity management are critical.
What to Do?
The dangers have never been greater, and the risks have never been higher. But cybersecurity protections are more advanced, too. They can be hardened, improved, standardized, and tested.
Gray Analytics will work with you on advancing your cybersecurity protections by helping you assess, design, build, implement, and mature your cybersecurity solutions with the most effective framework for your needs.
To learn more about Gray Analytics approach to cybersecurity and its solutions, please review our cybersecurity services site.
