Ssn 1 Ep 15: The New Kid in Town, Part 2
Some of the signs your internal IT department is overworked, the fallout you could face, and how co-managed IT can support your team in a cost-effective way.
Strategies for Cutting Costs Series
Ssn 1 Ep 15
The New Kid in Town, Part 2
Some of the signs your internal IT department may be overworked, and how co-managed IT can assist.
SHOW NOTES
Today’s episode continues on with the discussion about a new approach to IT support, co-managed IT.
00:50: Some of the signs that your IT department is overwhelmed
2:32: Multiple locations, remote working, and the effects on an IT team
4:15: Financial and security fallout from an over-stretched IT team
5:50: Missed patches and falling behind on routine maintenance, and the extensive damage and downtime that can cost a company.
6:15: The average amount of time a threat actor is living on your network before you find out they’re there, and what they’re doing during that time.
6:58: How much does your cyber-insurance protect you? How much do they pay out if you suffer a breach?
8:40: Reputational damage if you suffer a breach, and other effects on your company.
9:15: Lawsuit of a company in the UK that sued an American company
9:38: Are government fines, fees, and lawsuits covered by your insurance company if you weren’t at fault in a breach?
10:35: Average cost of a data breach
11:03: The HIPAA Wall of Shame
12:10: The goal is to make your network so difficult to break into, that a threat actor will give up and go somewhere else.
12:56: Further fallout: Supply Chain Attack, what is it and how can if affect you?
13:55: The new compliance, CMMC, what it is and how it protects the supply chain and what it means for smaller companies
14:55: When is co-managed IT NOT a good solution for a company?
At the end of the Strategies for Cuttings Costs series, we’ll be putting all the highlights together into a mini eBook that you can download. We’ll make it available in the show notes for each of the episodes in the series, so check back on that!
Your hosts: Rex Nance and Penny O'Halloran of East Atlantic Security, LLC @ https://EastAtlanticSecurity.com/
Voiceover Artist: Paul Kadach at www.voices.com
You’ll find the downloadable version of these show notes at: https://EastAtlanticSecurity.com/Cyber-Savvy-Cafe