The 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us, and we’re taking the month to spotlight resources and insights to help you improve cyber resilience and build a culture of security.
This year’s theme is “Secure Our World,” highlighting this global need to do our part, and we all play a part in protecting data and critical assets. Cyber resilience is a collective effort, requiring support from infrastructure and security teams alike. Pure Storage is not a security company, but we do store customers’ sensitive information and critical data—which makes data security and resilience our responsibility, too.
Check back throughout the month and explore these resources we’ve published here on the Pure Storage Blog.
Cybersecurity Month’s Key Objectives in 2024
This year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month has identified some key behaviors to help individuals and organizations bolster resilience:
- Using strong passwords and a password manager. Credentials are a common way for attackers to enter networks and do their worst. This simple yet often overlooked aspect of identity management is everyone’s responsibility. Learn more in “Why Identity Is the New Network Perimeter.”
- Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA). This and other security controls are aspects of zero trust architectures, which should be looked at as a journey, not a destination.
- Reporting phishing and known or suspected security incidents. Knowing what and how to report suspicious emails or texts cannot be overemphasized—especially with unexpected new threats from AI-powered actors, scareware, and wiperware.
- Updating software regularly and installing the latest security patches on devices—collectively known as data hygiene.
These are all incredibly important foundations and behaviors to implement in any enterprise—but they’re also just the tip of the spear in defensive strategies. The backbone of cyber resilience comes from a foundation: a data-resilient security architecture deeply integrated with tech partners who can uphold the latest standards and frameworks.
Let’s dig in.
Resilience Starts at the Storage Level—Period
But not all security architectures are created equal. We’ve dispelled some myths about air gaps, discussed security analytics and SIEM systems, and gone in-depth into the benefits of data bunkers—including a sample architecture to get you started. Be sure to check out these articles as well:
- Learn what a resilience architecture is and how you can build one
- Better together: How Pure Storage’s security partners add to your arsenal
- Your Guide to Security Logs—explaining how to make log data work harder and how to keep it safe
Ransomware Resources
With security-related incidents such as ransomware becoming the top cause of data outages, security and IT operations professionals must work together to improve the resiliency of their IT environment. Become a ransomware expert with:
- A free ransomware mitigation and recovery ebook, co-authored by former Black Hat Hector “Sabu” Monsegur
- A ransomware survival kit to learn how you can speed recovery and survive an attack
- How to create a cyber event response team—with insights from CISOs who have trained their own teams for the heat of battle
Data Compliance
Compliance standards can’t replace security best practices, but they absolutely complement them and create a baseline for resilience and prevention. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) encourages security and IT teams to work together to reduce the impact of attacks and even prevent outages and permanent data loss.
- NIST CSF 2.0—what it is, what it means to you, and how to gauge if your data architecture is aligned
- A look at the EU’s DORA framework and how it builds resilience
- See how smarter storage can play a critical role in boosting compliance
- Some how-tos on data retention and deletion policies
CISO Insights and Expertise
If cybersecurity is a team sport, the CISO is often the captain. Knowing their top concerns can be invaluable to keeping the entire organization cyber smart and secure. Check out:
- A CISO roundtable report packed with insights, hot takes, and predictions from leaders in the space
- “8 Questions to Ask Your CISO,” a conversation starter to help you hold valuable discussions with security teams in your organization
- A look at “internal” security gaps and cyber threats and how to head them off
- A conversation with a government CIO, a real-life hacker-turned good guy, and a technology leader as they offer their unique perspectives on building a resilient data storage environment
We don’t just prioritize security for one month a year, and we definitely don’t just help you store your data. Security is built into everything we do—and all of our products. Discover recently launched cyber resilience features from Pure Storage to give enterprise IT even more recovery and security capabilities, including:
- The Evergreen//One™ STaaS Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA, the only SLA to ship clean arrays after an attack or event
- The new Pure1® Security Assessment
- Enhanced anomaly detection
Check back as we feature more webinars, blogs, and guides to help keep your company’s most valuable assets safe.
A Team Sport
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