A Strategic Roadmap For Your Cyber Security

Protecting your organisation in today's digital landscape demands a proactive, multi-layered approach. At Canon, we believe in providing a clear, strategic path to stronger security. Our Security Roadmap guides you through a phased journey, from establishing essential defences to mastering advanced threat fortification. This framework is designed to safeguard your valuable data, ensure business continuity, and build lasting resilience against cyber threats.

Our Proactive, Multi-Layered Approach

A robust cyber security posture is built in stages. Our Security Roadmap begins with six fundamental steps to enhance your defences. From there, it progresses to advanced surveillance and response capabilities, which are crucial for proactively detecting threats and managing incidents effectively. The final phase focuses on actively testing, refining, and fortifying your defences through proactive strategies, ensuring your organisation is prepared for an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Our Three-Phase Security Roadmap

Our roadmap is broken down into three distinct phases, each building upon the last to create a comprehensive and resilient security posture for your business.

Phase 1: Fundamentals

This initial phase establishes the essential controls to significantly enhance your cyber defences.

Device Hardening

Fortify often-overlooked entry points like printers to minimise the device's attack surface and reduce the risk of network breaches. Unsecured devices can lead to network infiltration and data leakage.

Backup Verification

Ensure your backups are reliable, complete, and uncompromised. Simple backups are not enough, as they can be corrupted or incomplete.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Add crucial layers of security beyond just a password to provide strong protection against unauthorised access and secure your remote workforce.

Domain Hardening

Strengthen your Active Directory (AD), which holds the keys to your network, to reduce entry points for attackers and enhance control over user access.

Device Management

Implement a comprehensive strategy to securely monitor and control all business devices, enforcing passwords, data encryption, and remote wipe capabilities.

Advanced Email Security

Defend against primary attack vectors like phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC). This involves using advanced techniques like sandboxing and DMARC to block malicious content.

Phase 2: Surveillance

Building on the fundamentals, this phase focuses on advanced surveillance and response to proactively detect and manage threats.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Go beyond traditional antivirus with continuous monitoring and behavioural analytics to detect sophisticated threats that might indicate a breach. This enables faster incident response and containment.

Incident Response Planning (IRP)

Prepare for the unexpected with a well-defined plan that outlines steps for containment, eradication, and recovery. An IRP enhances organisational resilience and minimises downtime.

SIEM Implementation

Centralise and correlate log data from across your IT environment to gain a unified view of security events. This streamlines threat detection and improves forensic analysis.

Vulnerability Management

Proactively identify, prioritise, and remediate weaknesses in your systems and software before they can be exploited by attackers. This reduces your overall attack surface.

Phase 3: Fortification

The final phase involves actively testing, refining, and fortifying your defences using advanced, proactive strategies.

Offensive Testing Schedule

Simulate real-world attacks through scheduled penetration testing to uncover vulnerabilities in your systems and applications before attackers do.

Cyber Security Playbooks

Create step-by-step guides for specific incident types to enable faster, more coordinated response and reduce the risk of human error in high-stress situations.

Threat Intelligence Subscriptions

Stay informed about the latest threats and attacker methods with curated, actionable insights that enable a proactive defence.

Purple Teaming

Foster collaboration between your offensive (red) and defensive (blue) security teams to enhance your overall security posture and reduce threat detection times.

Threat Hunting

Proactively search your networks and data for hidden threats and attacker behaviours that evade standard security alerts. This uncovers hidden threats and reduces attacker "dwell time".

Partner with Canon on Your Security Journey

Navigating the complexities of cyber security requires a trusted partner. Canon provides the expertise and strategic guidance to help you implement this roadmap, fortifying your business at every stage.

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