In today's interconnected world, businesses face increasingly complex and evolving cyber threats. Safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining regulatory compliance, and ensuring overall organizational security have become paramount. One common misconception is that IT and Security functions are synonymous. However, merging these roles can have serious consequences. In this blog post, we will delve into the risks of combining IT and Security functions, the advantages of specialized roles, and steps to effectively separate them.
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face an increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats. These threats, ranging from phishing and ransomware to supply chain attacks, can have catastrophic consequences. Not only do they result in significant financial loss, but they also cause severe damage to a company's reputation and customer trust.
FirmGuardian has continued to mature threat detection and response service offerings, and have established a trusted relationship with our customers, adding supplementary services to address other security operations gaps, particularly focusing vulnerability and patch management, security awareness training, compliance gap assessments, and annual risk assessments.
Risk assessments are an essential part of measuring the broad spectrum of organization’s risks inclusive of IT, security, personnel, and policy risk. Risk assessments are often performed as a compliance requirement, and provide a valuable window into areas of improvement and help reduce material risk to the organization.
