The Security Driver
Cyber Security Services designed to assure and protect you and your customers
Does your security technology help you win business and increase customer loyalty while protecting you?
Does your security technology help you win business and increase customer loyalty while protecting you?
Imagine having an expert team protecting you. Imagine knowing that they have your back and are working hard to protect your business from cyber threats. You would have:
- Courage to reach out towards the big goals you have for your business.
- Confidence that you will achieve those business goals - despite encountering threats along the way.
- Reduced cyber insurance premiums delivered by your effective, assured security practices and response plans.
- Pride in knowing you are doing the right thing to protect your customers and your staff.
- Increased customer loyalty through looking after their data the way they want and providing evidence of your care.
- Confidence that your data is protected and can be restored in a time frame that will not hurt your business.
- Better staff cybersecurity awareness and cyber safety capability - knowledge that protects them, your business and your customers.
- The security of a strong, tested incident response plan that you know, understand and are proud of.
The risk of bundling Security, Innovation and Operations is confusion and an assumption you are protected!
Unfortunately, many business people don’t realise the level of risk they’re exposed to and the level of protection they need.
Some assume that – because they have great IT Support which includes “looking after” regular backups, virus and firewall updates – they’re covered.
The reality is that today’s business cybersecurity needs are way too complex for any one IT professional to manage and deal with the day-to-day IT needs of your business.
You might have an internal resource or an IT provider who is good at keeping you productive BUT IT DOES NOT automatically mean that they are good at protecting your systems and your business.
Good cyber security – the sort of security that will enable your business to survive – requires prioritisation, expertise, and scheduling.
It needs specialist knowledge, regular attention, detailed testing, continuous updates, and constant monitoring – so it’s much safer and easier to delegate it to a dedicated team.
Allocate 30% of your technology budget to "defensive plays" to win
A sports team might want everyone to play offensive and defence but they still hire a defensive coach who is responsible to make sure defence happens.
Similarly while a business might want all of their technology to play a role in security they need to commit about 30% of their technology budget (including time and effort) to ‘defensive plays’ and the security technology that helps them do that.
If you get it right you can demonstrate to your customers that you care with Visible Cyber Security
Your big stakeholders will increasingly demand assurance
Big business knows security is a top priority – and big business is increasingly demanding it from their suppliers.
So mid-size businesses, small businesses and even micro businesses can expect to get increasingly strident and detailed demands for formal verification of high levels of cyber security.
Are your best customers asking to KNOW how you’re protected – are they seeking evidence that you’re protecting them? (If they haven’t yet – they may ask sooner than you think.)
If they did, would you be comfortable sharing the details of your protection level? And would you be confident that they’re going to be happy with what you tell them?
Visible security is a multi-win investment strategy
Thinking about digital security is hard – the topic is scary, technical, detailed, and hard work. It’s all too easy to under-invest, delay, and procrastinate. Who benefits from that procrastination? The cybercriminals!
Cybercrime flourishes in the dark. The best defence is knowledge, planning and cooperative defence strategies. That way digital security stops being just a horrible, anxiety-ridden unknown and enables valuable conversations with your customers and suppliers.
Our strategic visible security and leading edge collaborative defence do more than reduce your risks and your insurance costs. It is also an opportunity to raise your profile with your customers and a global market.
Digital security today is an essential business survival strategy
Every business of any size today depends on technology. Sadly, more than ever before, every business is at risk FROM technology.
Neither blissful ignorance or paralysing fear are helpful – you need knowledge and expert services to protect your business.
The territory…
In the last decade, cybercrime has become global, organized, and industrial in scale. Criminals target organisations of every size with sophisticated campaigns that use powerful combinations of marketing psychology and leading-edge software.
Smart devices have further increased cybercrime risk – because bad actors can hide out in smart devices like Android TVs – not just on computers.
COVID has multiplied flexible working arrangements – and more business have more people than ever before working on unprotected, overloaded networks
The nature of cybercrime is changing.
Attackers are no longer simply out to disrupt your operations with speedy hit-and-run attacks – they’re out to penetrate, infiltrate, monitor and extract everything they can possibly use to blackmail you, to steal money from you, or to sell on the dark web.
So, they spend lots of “dwell time” inside your systems. They lurk silently inside your walls for weeks, sneaking around and stealing everything they can find of value – from client contacts to big payments they can divert.
So locking the doors with firewalls and relying on recovery strategies based on “restore from backup” threatens your business survival.
No one can guarantee that you are “totally safe” anymore – but you can be well-prepared and well-protected. And have proof of your protection to assure your customers of your security.
Criminals are focused on exploiting technology for illicit gain.
You need focus on closing the holes and minimising the damage
Today, technology solutions are multiplying, social changes are rapid and cybercrime has become a sophisticated global industry. No business is too small.
In this environment a traditional Managed Support Provider Agreement cannot cover the level of detail and the specialist services that build robust digital security into your business.
That’s why Network Overdrive has developed a specific Managed Digital Security Agreement – so you can assure your team and your customers that your business is resilient and well-protected.
No one can promise your 100% safety – but we can give you visible assurance and multi-layer protection to minimise your risk, maximise your resilience, and assure valuable stakeholders that you are doing the right thing.
Good digital security plans for when the hackers get in and collaborates to minimise the damage
Today’s cybercrime environment requires a whole new approach to “cyber security” – with a whole new level of expertise. Relying solely on backups, firewalls and virus protections that protect your boundaries is increasingly dangerous.
Security companies and solutions developers are bringing the next generation of cybersecurity solutions to market – solutions that make great protection more affordable than ever before.
Collaboration delivers greater (and more affordable) resilience
Insurance companies and investigators expert in cybercrime recovery have identified that the best way to minimise defence and recovery costs is through collaboration.
Collaboration makes the process of identifying and responding to new attacks much faster – and often less costly. This has been measured as reducing average response costs by a factor of three (and sometimes up to a factor of 10)
Network Overdrive is working in alliance with US experts IronNet to enable the delivery of Collective Defence tools and strategies in Australia.
Industry best practice for cyber security is changing
In the current environment, Security Operations Centres and Managed Security Services are becoming increasingly important.
To be effective, they use defence strategies built around the Gartner-approved SOC Visibility Triad.
The three dimensions of effective cybersecurity
All three aspects of this triangle are equally important. The first two are:
- Security information and event management (SIEM) and User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA)
These solutions collect logging data from across your organisation’s security infrastructure. Over time, analysis of this data for anomalies can help with faster threat detection. - Endpoint detection and response (EDR) – which is about carefully monitoring activity on your organisation’s user devices (endpoints)
The aim is to detect and prevent as much hacking as possible (think of it as advanced anti-virus protection). - Network detection and response (NDR) – which is about analysing your network traffic in close to real time – what’s going on ACROSS your network and detecting suspicious activity to determine threatening activity.
Does your cybersecurity cover these three dimensions?
These three components are equally needed, according to Gartner. Their opinion is accepted by all leading security experts. The newest and least known dimension is Network Detection and Response – but it’s become a vital component in effective security.
You need the following from us....
You need the following from us....
Assess your Cyber Risk and
review your capability in these areas:
Data Governance, Risk Analysis and Reputational Management
We deliver the Data Governance audit and management processes that enable you to understand all the data you hold.
With it, you will know where ALL your data is – especially what you’re keeping about your customers. You validate who can access IT and confirm no-one else has access. It’s ongoing, ensuring what you hold is protected over time.
We also work with you to analyse the business and reputation risks of the data you hold – so that you understand the consequences of an attack.
We assist you with communications strategies and disaster planning so that you can communicate with your customers about how you are protecting them now and how you will keep them informed in the event of an attack.
Managed Detection and Response (XDR)
We filter the noise to detect suspicious activity and provide the right response from a multi-layer cyber security system.
Our approach includes:
- Boundary Protection (Next Gen Firewall) to minimise the chance of illicit entry
- Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) that monitors ALL your equipment; and
- Network Detection and Response (NDR) using AI-based behavioural monitoring to ensure that bad actors are detected fast.
Unified Operations Centre (UOC)
We stress you need focus on Security however combining your Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems with your backup and performance monitoring systems will increase your Situational Intelligence to better remediate any potential threat. That is why we combine backup and disaster recovery operators and performance/availability technician with security specialists into a Unified Operations Centre
This quickly eliminates any ‘alert’ that is related to normal business activities so that the security specialist can focus on what might be truly of danger to the business.
Validated Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Just running backup processes is not enough. You know you should document disaster scenarios and then test, manage and validate that you CAN recover from each disaster – across all your platforms AND in a reasonable time.
We work with you to identify and prioritise critical business functions and plan your recovery. Then we test that process and review it regularly to ensure it works and stays up to date.
Visible Compliance and Assurance
We assist you to develop and automate the ongoing formal verification of high levels of cyber security and risk management increasingly required to retain major customers win tenders.
We can assist you to meet market demand for ongoing compliance with ISO27001, GDPR or NIST. You will be able to meet demands for such information; automate the process so it’s easy to share AND demonstrate your compliance to build your reputation.
Collective Cyber Defense
We enhance your internal cyber security capability by embedding it within a collaborative cyber defence framework to identify real-time attacks not just threats to your business and supply-chain ecosystem.
This collaborative approach to digital security reduces insurance costs, increases your protection and enables faster disaster recovery. You access AI-powered analysis and protection; get actual attack intelligence in close-to-real-time; and participate in collaborative problem-solving tools and expertise.
A Business needs a qualified, resourced Cyber Security team
So how do you protect your business and provide your customers with the assurance (and reassurance) that they need?
Affordable business protection
Affordable, effective cybersecurity in a world of industrial-scale globalised cybercrime requires a collaborative approach and well-resourced security expertise.
It requires a provider with a team of in-house experts equipped with top quality tools and the resources to make sure you’re protected.
It requires a provider who is up-to-date on current developments and who is connected to the best global solutions providers – providers applying the best in new technology to create robust, effective, affordable solutions.
Assurance for your stakeholders
As external stakeholders, regulators and big customers demand better and more visible security, it will increasingly require a provider who can guide you through demanding certification and assurance processes.
If you want to win and keep big clients and protect all of your stakeholders, you need to invest in understanding the issues, the territories and the solution.
Security Technology is One of Three
Drivers for Business Success
Effective digital security is a key technology driver but not sufficient to drive business success. For your business to succeed and make best use of technology, you need resources and investments allocated to three areas:
SECURITY
- Broad spectrum Cyber Security Services that deliver the Protection and Assurance that ensure your business doesn't loose the gains it has made over the years.
PERFORMANCE
- Effective, structured High Performance IT Support .which ensures that your business technology delivers optimal productivity and systems reliability.
INNOVATION
- Effective technology development tools, processes and resources that deliver successful business Improvement. and high-return business Innovation.
By focusing on each success driver separately, you can choose how to deliver each one. You can tune each driver to your business needs. You might outsource one area and do the others internally.
We have written a guide that covers the three areas in depth so that you can assess your situation and determine if technology is truly driving your business success (or is it just a bystander costing you money)
Collective Cyber Defence for the Care and Community Sector
For-purpose organisations and the community sector as a whole are now on the hacking front line.
The growth of industrial-scale cybercrime and cyber terrorism – in conjunction with the growth of distributed working caused by COVID – means that the community sector is now facing a whole new level of cyber security risk.
Network Overdrive has a long association with the Care and Community sector with our Community and Not For Profit Sustainable IT Services
In response to this new reality, Network Overdrive offers an affordable, shared cybersecurity solution tailored for Australian Care and Community service organisations
The Network Overdrive Solution
Network Overdrive runs a team of specialists, including people with specific expertise in the security field. We have researched the leading-edge security solutions on offer around the world.
Protecting your business and your business systems in today’s world of Cloud applications, smart devices and industrialised cybercrime has become too important to roll security into “support”.
For us this means:
How secure ARE you? REALLY?
This is something you need to KNOW and VERIFY – or you could well be risking your business on the assumption (ass-u-me) that you’re covered.
It’s not something that you can safely postpone once you realise your risk. Even though the area is high-tech and overwhelming, you can’t afford to let “improving security” keep ending up on your “round to it” list.
The harsh reality is that it’s extremely difficult (and equally expensive) to do a cybersecurity upgrade in the middle of an emergency. You get all the worst downsides of cost and disruption and reputation damage.
The good news is that the top emerging solutions are collaborative – and collaborative security substantially reduces security costs, increases your protection, and can reduce disaster recovery costs (by a factor of 3 to a factor of 10).
