7 Ways to Reduce Your Cyber Attack Surface

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1. Secure The Right Boundary

Your Firewall

Is Not Enough

I know, you spend so much time and money on protecting

your perimeter but your threats are coming from

everywhere – both outside and inside your network.

Between the cloud and malware, your distributed computing stacks have changed the perimeter.

The larger surface is now internal and is influenced by all different kinds of attacks.

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2. Security Starts with Development*

You can’t add on a security patch or a firewall after

you’ve built your system.

Start your security during development to make sure

your security solutions are as agile as your applications.

Security isn’t a

Band-Aid.

*SecurityWeek.com

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3. Secure Your Ports

Don’t leave your front door

open

With more systems moving to the cloud, you also have

more open ports over unsecure connections.

When you open these ports it’s as if you are opening the door to your network. When you’re done, make sure you

lock up.*

*SecurityWeek.com

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4. Simple Security

How many controls do you have on your security system?

On your firewall?

How many can you explain exactly what they do?

Get rid of your old policy rules and keep only your updated

ones that you can understand and work with.

K.I.S.S.- Keep It Simple Stupid

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5. Encrypt Your Critical Data

Encrypting the old way doesn’t

work in the cloud

We know the old way. String your VLAN from a workload to a

firewall and then create an encrypted tunnel to another

firewall.*

With the cloud that’s no longer feasible.

All data needs to be encrypted in order to secure it on the cloud.

*SecurityWeek.com

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6. Monitor and Flag in Real Time

Hackers can be in your system in minutes; but what

if it isn’t the minutes you spent looking at your system

today?

Monitoring in real time allows you to see critical risks when they arise and handle them immediately mitigating the

risk to your systems.

Don’t miss a minute

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7. Network and Host: Don’t Choose

Network and Host.

We’re better together.

The only way to know how secure you are is to monitor

everything.

This includes the network and the host – no matter

what your vendor tells you.

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How Secure is Your Surface?

Do you know where your critical risks lie?

Is your firewall ready for the cloud?

Let Courion help.

With a Quick Scan of your systems, we can show you where your critical risks lie and how to secure them.

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