Understanding the Types of IT Security Solutions Most Relevant to Your Enterprise

Scotland's IT support specialists explore tailored IT security solutions, from enterprise frameworks to access controls, for robust data protection

For many corporations and larger businesses, the complexity and scale of cybersecurity issues can cause decision paralysis. They may perceive that there are too many products, services, approaches, and strategies to offer clarity about where and how to make key changes to address vulnerabilities and shore up defences.

However, the prevalence of large-scale data breaches, ransomware attacks, and malicious hacks—many of which are successful due to sophisticated social engineering techniques—means that companies must take decisive action to keep their organisations, customer security, and digital assets safe.

This has been compiled by the independent IT security specialists at Jera, a firm based in Scotland with a nationwide reach that focuses on advanced, next-gen and customised security infrastructure to provide robust and full-scope protection.

The Importance of Informed Decision-Making When Choosing IT Security Solutions

There is no doubt that as a modern and sector-leading cybersecurity team, the diversity and extent of services we provide have evolved considerably in recent years, from conventional antivirus software and firewalls to more advanced data loss prevention strategies, cutting-edge encryption, cloud security and disaster recovery planning.

One of the core issues we often see is that there are now so many potential ways forward and products on the market that even larger and well-established enterprises stall on making decisions or cannot pinpoint the best ways to implement preventive and preemptive security measures to defend sensitive and valuable data.

Typically, an outsourced service is ideal, where a team of accomplished technicians, security consultants, engineers and programmers can cover every base, including proactive intrusion detection tracking and monitoring of network activity to identify anomalies.

We can also be tasked with cloud storage and data backups, ensuring commercially sensitive data is siloed from general access routes and antivirus detection, putting solutions in place that can detect even covert attempts at security breaches, with barriers to isolate unusual or suspicious actions to enable investigation.

Much may depend on the nature, origin and sensitivity of the data your business collects, stores and uses. However, the right approach usually begins with a thorough IT audit to identify gaps or vulnerabilities within your hardware, software and broader IT infrastructure.

Lack of security can lead to data breaches and losses, operational downtime and reputational damage, and even legal repercussions if the company is found to have neglected its duty to protect data in line with data protection legislation.

Elements of Enterprise IT Security to Consider for Your Organisation

Businesses often handle myriad types of data and information flows with varying sensitivity levels, from proprietary assets to client's private information. Therefore, the security solutions required to implement proactive data security will vary.

Depending on the size of the corporation, we might recommend some or all of the following.

Structured Data Security Frameworks

A framework is a strategic policy that sets out how your organisation will monitor for potential breaches or suspicious access attempts, the methods you’ll use to spot current or new vulnerabilities, how you will control legitimate access for your workforce, and the protocols you will implement to contain a live security incident.

Having a proactive and agile framework provides a robust foundation for IT security. Your organisation can make continual improvements based on risk analyses to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensure data is always actively protected.

Enterprise Data Security

Enterprise security varies from other services primarily due to the scope and capacity of data, networks, systems, and devices covered, but it includes multiple technologies and tools, ranging from data encryption during communications to controlled entry permissions and data loss prevention solutions.

For instance, if sensitive data is most vulnerable during storage or confidential digital assets are at risk of unauthorised access during data movement, a data security service can monitor data transmissions and access attempts and implement data storage that is fully compliant with the regulations.

Access Control Solutions

We’ve mentioned access control above, which is a cornerstone of your defence against cybercrime, particularly for workforces with remote working flexibility, BYOD connectivity or devolved teams who might be logging into secure networks and databases from varied devices and using multiple internet connections.

For clients for whom this is a key concern, we often suggest a robust and zero-trust access control framework that can regulate user permissions to restrict access only to services and data relevant to each colleague's role and set rules about who can view, change, download, transfer, or delete data.

Using always-on monitoring ensures that any attempt to bypass access controls, circumvent user permissions, or carry out a prohibited function is isolated from the rest of your systems, tracked, and shut down swiftly.

Customising Organisational IT Security for Your Corporation

While we've summarised some of the broad categories of IT security solutions that may be applicable, the ideal approach is usually a hybrid strategy, blending cloud security with data storage safeguards, ongoing monitoring and activity tracking, and automated security patching and updates.

This approach offers a blanket of protection over all activities and touchpoints while ensuring that your organisation doesn't become complacent or assume that existing controls will still be up to the task of protecting data against new cyberattacks.

Tailoring your IT security is as important as the expertise and knowledge behind your data protection strategies and protocols. Different industries and sectors have very different risks to consider, alongside varying regulatory obligations depending on the nature and sensitivity of the data they store and handle.

For instance, healthcare companies and services have been the targets of several large-scale attacks over the last year, with enormous ransomware demands and records relating to millions of individual service users accessed through sophisticated hacking approaches.

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About Jera

Jera provides fully managed IT support, cybersecurity services, telecoms systems, and IT strategy consultancy to businesses based in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and the surrounding areas.

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