The Cyber Security Blueprint For SME Organisations
Cyber Security Everyone in your Organisation Understands
Our cyber security blueprint has been designed to enable SME organisations to get to grips with both technical controls and and enable their management to make informed business decisions on cyber security issues. We know that SME organisations face specific challenges that larger "corporates" don't:
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Cyber security is part of someone's "day - job": staying on top of cyber security can be challenging when there are other claims on the time of already busy busy people. Security processes need to be focussed optimised to ensure that they can be accommodated within the "bandwidth" of existing resources
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Lack of time and resource to do the "deep dive" to find out how locateand leveraging existing capabilities. Your M365 environment provides significant capabilities to adequately address most aspects of cyber security including privacy, identity and email security controls. Many SME organisations are not fully aware of the security tooling that they already have in place and can optimise to strengthen their security position*.
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Maintaining the "soft stuff" - like sustaining user awareness. Periodic awareness training is one thing - keeping people ever-vigilant is another. We can show you how to address the "forgetting curve"
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Keeping the board and senior leadership informed in terms that relate to business risk. Most boards (even in larger organisations) have little insight into "what really going on" in terms that they can relate to. This ultimately this creates a lack of transparency and actionable information to support decision making. But every M365 user already has the capability to produce concise, business relevant reporting.
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Excessive information handling and information overload. Consolidating information related to the performance of security activities can significantly enhance management processes and assist with gaining a "single pane of glass" for security disposition, compliance and actions in progress. Most commercial solutions are designed for large corporates 9with corresponding budgets) - but there are In-house options using SharePoint, that can give a smaller organisation everything they need to stay on top of security management as well as staying "audit-ready" for compliance purposes.
We can help you to deal with all these challenges - using security tooling and resources that are already available in your organisation.
Our cyber security blueprint for SME organisations enables you to:
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Leverage the full capabilities of the security tools already available in your environment so that, through a single "lens" you can create and monitor a security framework that fits your organisation and it's specific risk profile
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Maintain awareness and vigilance throughout your organisation
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Optimise compliance management (such as ISO 27001, ISO 22301 and Cyber Essentials) using SharePoint.
Strengthening & Optimising Information Security for SMEs
Defender 365 is your security management hub and is an integral part M365 Business Premium (so you are already paying for it - no upgrades are required). Even if you use a managed service provider to look after Microsoft 365, knowing that you security is as robust as it should be (and not just configured with default settings) and is aligned to your specific security and compliance needs.
Technical Resilience
We'll guide you to leverage facilities within your M365 environment to stay on top of:
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Protection of physical devices attached to your network
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Email security controls to protect against phishing and zero-day malware
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Establishing strong multi-factor authentication
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Data loss prevention controls
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Security Benchmarking - seeing how your security position compares to similar organisations.
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Delivering business relevant risk metrics that your senior management will understand.
Awareness & Vigilance
Everyone is aware of the need for all members of the organisation to remain vigilant at all times. But it's easier said than done - periodic awareness training can soon dwindle when everyone goes back to their "day-job". We'll show you how to verify that your security awareness programme is actually improving secure behaviour in the organisation and how to improve it at zero cost
Research has shown that once users have had some basic awareness training what tends to maintain vigilance best is periodic, gentle nudges to "trigger" recall. Some recent academic research has confirmed this showing that frequent, subtle nudges are more effective (and popular) than classroom based courses or fake phishing simulations. We'll show you how to quickly establish an effective "nudge" campaign at zero cost.
Security Process Optimisation
Ensuring that you remain compliant and "audit ready" can be a time consuming task when you are relying on spreadsheet, policies etc. in One Drive folders (or "vanilla" SharePoint folder, for that matter). SharePoint provide the capabilities to put compliance management activities on auto-pilot - freeing you up from laborious information handling activities. We'll show you how to automate programmes like ISO 22301, ISO 22301 and cyber essentials.