A business without accurate, secure, and manageable data is a business risking deep trouble. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room; ensuring data integrity is like brushing your teeth daily – it’s not exactly exciting, and it’s not why you get out of bed every day, but if you don’t do it, things can fall apart – literally!
In this blog post, you’ll discover why data integrity matters, how device security can keep your enterprise safe, and get to know what you can do to keep the digital teeth of your enterprise clean. Let’s dive in!
Data Integrity Lowers Risk and Helps Your Business
Data integrity ensures that your business’s data remains accurate, reliable, and secure from unauthorized access or corruption. Having damaged, inaccurate, and inaccessible data leads to operational discontinuity, potentially big financial losses, breaches of legal compliance, and tarnished reputations. Data integrity doesn’t just head off risks; it gives an ever-present foundation for working smoothly and growing your business with peace of mind.
The integrity of your data can be compromised by a range of sources:
- Without backups in place, your data can risk being lost permanently.
- Without device or endpoint security, cybercriminals can come in and lock down this data and, as a result, your business.
- Without proper data classification, monitoring, and safeguards, your business can risk cyberattacks and going astray from its legal compliance
- Inconsistent or poorly thought-out IT practices, such as enabling remote work without a cybersecurity plan in place, can also lead to more risks and data compromise.
In a nutshell, data integrity is a holistic practice that keeps your business operations and customers safe. The bigger your business, the bigger the stakes are when data integrity does get compromised. So, what can you do about it, and how can you get started?
What Is Endpoint Security and How Does It Ensure Data Integrity?
Endpoint security is about safeguarding all of your network-connected devices and the data that they can access within your IT ecosystem. Today, advanced tools like machine learning are being used to scan for and address threats across vast IT environments in real time. IT and business are joined at the hip; an endpoint security solution is designed to protect your business with the right tools and practices.
Endpoint security is about a lot more than just having antivirus and email spam filters in place; it can (and should!) factor in enforcing compliant IT policies, ensuring continuity through measures like data backups, and 24/7 monitoring from human cybersecurity specialists. For mid-market businesses, an endpoint security package can be a lifeline, as they are prime targets for cybercriminals, including those with the most means.
We offer our very own Endpoint Protection Package that brings all of the facets for data integrity and device security together to make this easier for our enterprise clients. This takes a strategy and set of integrated defenses, but there are a number of things you can do to harden the security of your business’s IT environment.
How Can I Protect the Data in My Business? Cybersecurity 101
To protect your business’s data from IT mishaps and today’s cyber-bad guys, you need to look at your IT environment using a few key lenses. Once you know the key areas where your business can improve, you can narrow down what you need to do to keep your business secure.
- Visibility: How visible is your IT environment? How do you really know how it is performing or where there are gaps and risks? Are you tracking if compliance requirements are being met? If this is not clear, then creating the visibility you need is the first step to ensuring data integrity. Without visibility, you can’t control the security posture of your business.
- Defense: What measures do you have in place across your IT environment and team? Are they proportionate to your business’s maturity and IT setup? What’s in place for your users’ awareness and securing their devices in the office and at home? What about your servers and your network as a whole? Are you confident your data is being backed up and can be recovered if it’s lost? Our other blogs can help you understand the defenses that mid-market businesses are using today.
- Response & Recovery: When incidents and breaches happen, what measures are in place to enable a strong and swift response? This includes things like an incident response and data recovery plan, having AI-powered systems with the ability to detect and respond to threats in real time, or having a 24/7/365 Security Operations Center that is constantly safeguarding your business, no matter the time and place.
Once you have an idea of the areas and causes for threats to your data’s integrity, you can take measures to set things right and ensure your focus goes to what matters.
Get Clarity on Your Cybersecurity with ASC
In the dark about your cybersecurity posture and the integrity of your data? Don’t fret! We can help you. We know it’s complicated to navigate the technical 1s and 0s of securing your business; if you sense your security isn’t where it needs to be and want to get clarity on where you stand and how to get to safe harbor, why not reach out to us for a conversation? It’s no obligation, and we’ll be glad to point you in the right direction.
How ASC Group Protects Data for Mid-Market Businesses
Our Endpoint Security Package is designed for mid-market businesses, giving them the robust, scalable, and integrated defenses that they need to focus on what matters. Here’s how we secure our clients using the Endpoint Security Package and how it protects them from harm.
24/7 Cybersecurity Operations Center
Your network doesn’t take breaks, and neither do cyber threats. With around-the-clock monitoring, our dedicated cybersecurity team ensures that threats are found and dealt with in real time. This constant watch minimizes the chances and impact of cyberattacks on your business across the board.
Managed Detection & Response
Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated every day. We combine cutting-edge technology such as machine learning with human expertise to stay ahead of attackers. Advanced threat detection tools, proactive threat hunting, and swift incident response are bundled together to give you an enterprise-class defense.
Vulnerability Protection
Of course, preventing threats in the first place is key! We also include tools to stop vulnerabilities from being exploited ahead of time; this includes user awareness training for your workforce, vulnerability assessments to find gaps and address them, and dark web monitoring that can flag when your critical data has been compromised before damages can deepen.
Active Threat Response
We also use a range of automated tools that allow us to contain incidents swiftly before they can branch out into a business shutdown. We offer detailed forensic analysis tools that find the root causes of cyber incidents and attacks, and we will work with your IT team so that they have clarity and confidence in the cybersecurity of your IT environment.
Vendor-Agnostic Solution
We are able to deliver endpoint protection in your existing IT environment. That means faster deployment, more control for your IT team, and the ability to use IT solutions fitted to your needs and goals without fear of incompatibilities between your IT and security solutions.
Final Thoughts
Whether you need a digital tooth checkup or just need to ensure that those digital teeth are getting looked after, it’s always important to ensure your data is secure. By protecting your devices from a prevention, monitoring, and response standpoint, you will have the visibility, tools, and tactics needed to keep your business free from compromise and compliance toothaches. We hope you found this useful, and if you’d like a helping hand or some advice, we’d be glad to help you.
Schedule A Conversation With Us Today
Whether you’re looking to solve problems with technology or ensure your data and operations are safe from compromise, our team is here to help. Why not schedule a conversation with our president, Alan? He’ll listen, give you impartial guidance and advice, and help you get in the right direction. Make headway on your goals today and discover what’s possible for your business.
