What's the importance of my Security Posture?

New ways of working and innovative technology are increasing the complexity of our IT environments. While 10 years ago company applications ran almost exclusively on company hardware and employees only worked with these applications on-site, today that is completely different with the growth of SaaS applications in the cloud and employees accessing company critical resources on the road or from home. Likewise, the need for cybersecurity is growing. Cyber attacks are not only increasing in volume, but are also becoming more sophisticated and structured in their execution by criminal organizations. It is therefore more important than ever to take a close look at how you can protect your company's IT environment from these cyber-attacks and thus reduce the risk of damage.

What's my Security Posture?

At Arxus we therefore look at the 'security posture' of our customers. This is a general state of affairs concerning the design of their IT security landscape. We evaluate the security posture by comparing it with security standards that are used worldwide and by comparing the configuration with similar companies. This way we get an insight into how secure the IT environment is and where improvements can be made.

Why should I improve my Security Posture?

Continuously optimizing, updating and monitoring your security posture is a preventative way to protect against cyber attacks, identity theft and unauthorized access to corporate data. The better your posture, the better protected you are. As mentioned earlier, hackers are also always looking for new ways and avenues to penetrate your environment. Security must therefore continue to evolve to cope with these new avenues of attack. Being up to date with recognized standards and best practices is therefore definitely an added value.

A good example of this is the Microsoft 365 cloud. Microsoft is constantly innovating in securing the Microsoft 365 environment, introducing new proposals and features to reduce the risk of attacks. These security features are often the de-facto standard for new Microsoft 365 environments. For existing Microsoft 365 environments, however, the responsibility of enabling this security improvement is placed on the customer itself. This is to avoid that customers would suddenly experience the impact of an automatic implementation of such a security feature from one day to the next. Microsoft provides the option to enable the security enhancement, it is up to the customer to activate it.

As a partner we can assist you in measuring the potential impact, developing an action plan and improving the security posture.

A security breach can have an enormous impact on your organization. Better to prevent than to cure, right?

How can Arxus help me improve my Security Posture?

Your posture gets better by creating extra layers and depth in the barriers you put in place to counter attacks, but also by setting up detection mechanisms that allow you to detect possible gaps in your barriers.

To start, we perform an assessment that gives us an overview of your company's current security posture. This allows us to prioritize and identify the most acute security risks and place them on a roadmap.

We then get to work implementing a basic security hygiene and resolving these acute risks. We can then build on that and expand and update our depth and layering on a recurring basis.

What are the requirements to begin?

A Microsoft 365 environment in use is the minimum requirement to get started. Our solution is designed to start with the Microsoft 365 environment and further secure the infrastructure and endpoints from there.

Don't worry, getting an understanding of your security posture doesn't require an overpriced license or the most expensive infrastructure. Building and maintaining your security posture is a constant process and can start where your business currently is.

As your posture improves and new requirements arise, we look at what facets of your work environment can be optimized to work towards an even stronger posture. The following facets are among others under consideration:

• Identity
• Endpoints
• Services
• Data

Interested in getting started?

Contact Arxus and we will find a moment to listen to your needs and to map out your current security posture. Afterwards, you will receive a report from us with a clear roadmap and possible implementations to have an immediate impact on your security posture. Leave your details here.