IT security risk assessments focus on identifying the threats facing your information systems, networks and data, and assessing the potential consequences you’d face should these adverse events occur. Risk assessments should be conducted on a regular basis (e.g. annually) and whenever major changes occur within your organization (e.g., acquisition, merger, re-organization, when a leader decides to implement new technology to handle a key business process, when employees suddenly move from working in an office to working remotely)....

Threat detection and response is the most important aspect of cybersecurity for IT organizations that depend on cloud infrastructure. Without the ability to recognize network intruders or other malicious adversaries in a timely fashion, IT security analysts have no hope of responding effectively to security events and effectively mitigating damage.....

Today, the cybersecurity industry faces numerous challenges — increasingly persistent and devious threat actors, a daily flood of data full of extraneous information and false alarms across multiple, unconnected security systems, and a serious shortage of skilled professionals....

The security team, which consists of both security analysts and engineers, oversees all activity on servers, databases, networks, applications, endpoint devices, websites and other systems for the sole purpose of pinpointing potential security threats and thwarting them as quickly as possible. They also monitor relevant external sources (such as threat lists) that may affect the organization’s security posture.

Data backup is a form of disaster recovery and should be part of any disaster recovery plan....