Cybersecurity Monitoring Enhances Defense in Ddepth Strategies

Continuously monitoring controls effectiveness is the only way to ensure that your defense in depth strategies protect data security. Three of the primary controls that protect against a data breach - unused open ports, host-based firewalls, network-based firewalls - often require manual processes and review to ensure their continued effectiveness.

What does cybersecurity monitoring do?

Unused open ports often remain unnoticed because organizations lack the capability to continuously scan their networks. Digital transformation objectives leave you adding and removing services on a regular basis. Monitoring the ports that these services use can become overwhelming when done manually, ultimately creating a human error risk that can lead to a data breach.

How cybersecurity monitoring locates weaknesses

Meanwhile, firewalls require regular monitoring to ensure that you have updated them with the most recent security patches. Like every other service in your organization, attackers continuously look to exploit vulnerabilities in firewall code. If you fail to update the firewall in a timely manner, you place your data at risk.

Cybersecurity monitoring solutions enable you to continuously monitor your IT controls to ensure continuous data protection. These solutions look at the publicly available information on the internet, such as open ports or firewall updates, and alert you to new risks. Many provide alerts to new risks and offer remediation steps.