In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, CrossFirst Bank recently hosted a webinar featuring Russ Horn, President of CoNetrix, who shared insights on the types of cybersecurity attacks taking place and what you can do to help protect your business. Read on for helpful questions to ask yourself to help determine if you are prepared to handle an attack. Click below to watch the full webinar recording with detailed descriptions of each attack, including examples.
Ransomware
- What protections do we have in place?
- Are all critical systems backed up?
- How would we recover from our backups?
- Have we conducted ransomware specific table-top tests?
Phishing
- Have we trained employees on phishing technics?
- Do we regularly conduct phishing tests?
- Do we provide additional training to employees who fail tests?
Remote Work
- Have we discussed how we will protect company systems against a potentially insecure home network?
- Have we shared what controls and safeguards we expect employees to have when working remote?
Third-Party Incidents
- How do we ensure third-party systems and applications are patched?
- Are we managing and supervising our critical vendors?
- Are we requiring critical vendors via contracts to notify us of any incidents?
Corporate Account Takeover
- Are our systems regularly patched and do we have current anti-malware software?
- Do we use multi-factor authentication to log into high-risk systems?
These questions provide a great start to help determine how well your organization will do in the face of a cybersecurity attack. For more detail and to better understand the types of attacks businesses are experiencing, as well as examples, click to watch the full webinar recording below. If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us today.
