5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

A full-time mass work from home (WFH) workforce was once
considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security
professionals even bothered to think about.

Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to
face such a reality. Their 3-year long digital transformation
strategy was forced to become a 3-week sprint during which offices
were abandoned, and people started working from home.

Like in an eerie doomsday movie, servers were left on in the
office, but nobody was sitting in the chairs.

While everyone hopes that the world returns to its previous
state, it’s evident that work dynamics have changed forever. From
now on, we can assume a hybrid work environment.

Even companies that will require their employees to arrive daily
at their offices recognize that they have undergone a digital
transformation, and work from home habits will remain.

The eBook “5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for a
Post-COVID19 Era” (download here^[1]) helps companies prepare
for these new work dynamics. The practical insights and provided
recommendations make this a very helpful guide for small security
teams that feel the brunt of security on a daily basis and now need
to add one more item to their security strategy planning and
execution.

This eBook details the following five security lessons derived
from current business, IT, and threat landscape trends:

1. You can’t do it all. In particular, they
   suggest asking your security vendor for their customer success and
   offered services. Some vendors provide a range of free offerings,
   but many customers don’t realize this and forego the opportunity to
   extend their security team virtually.
2. Response speed is the name of the game.
   Everyone will tell you that automation is key. The guide takes it a
   step further and also suggests how to remove overheads from
   security stacks as well as how to reduce analyst work
   inefficiencies.
3. More corporate devices to be issued to
   employees. This point provides best practices for securely
   procuring and managing all of those new devices, also when the
   security team works remotely.
4. Supply chain attacks are on the rise. Your
   supplier’s security, unfortunately, becomes your security. The
   guide provides tips on how to receive more visibility into the
   threats that now reside in your environment, including how to
   address this challenge in a budget-constrained way.
5. Economies have changed. When ransomware is
   growing to insurmountable amounts, what are the ways – from
   training to technologies – to best protect your business.

At the end of the day, small security teams deal with many
challenges. As all security teams go, they have the burden of
tedious tasks and operational demands while needing to keep the
business going.

But on top of that, they have a stricter budget and human
resource limitations. In each practical step, this guide takes
these constraints into consideration.

Download the eBook “5 Security Lessons for
Small Security Teams for a Post-COVID19 Era”^[2]